Introducing Dr. Donald Berwick
From IBD
“His views are utterly conventional in the left-of-center academic health care circles in which he has rock-star status. He loves bureaucratic systems, hates profits and distrusts individuals. He believes in doing more with less, saying no to excesses of medical technology, redistributing wealth and rationing care.
“The decision is not whether or not we will ration care,” he said in a June 2009 interview. “The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”
Like any good Harvard academic, he’s fully conversant in everyone’s shortcomings and how to make them better. Hospital boards are “out to lunch.” Doctors in America have too much discretion. “I don’t care so much what doctors say,” he said in a 2005 speech. He celebrates managed care, so long as it’s not administered by a private company. His ideal system is Great Britain’s National Health Service. What is the NHS, after all, if not a giant, government-run HMO?”
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