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Better Health, Better Care, Lower Costs: Reforming Health Care Delivery As our nation works to bring health care costs under control, much of the focus is on how to make changes to our health care system that will improve the quality and safety of care and provide measureable savings in the coming decade. The Affordable Care Act makes an historic investment in tools to help transform our health care delivery system over the long run—tools that will reduce and eliminate preventable injuries to patients, reward quality and innovation, and spur adoption of technology that improves care while better aligning payment incentives to reward providers who work to improve care. The long-term savings from these reforms are not yet being fully realized, but they are setting the stage for a transformation of the way that health care is delivered in the United States, to put us on a path toward a patient-centered system that rewards the quality of care delivered, not just the quantity of ser

Appearing on TV on Thursday, Clinton said he “regrets…this stirring up” and is “very sorry” for veering off message on the Bush tax cuts , and the former president denied he is undermining President Barack Obama, insisting he is fully committed to Obama’s reelection. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/bill-clinton-country-is-i_n_1572069.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HP%2FBusiness+(Business+on+The+Huffington+Post ) Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77178.html#ixzz1xQLPGlU0 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77178.html

President George W. Bush had a low favorable rating when he left office, and he's still not popular, according to a CNN/ORC International poll released Thursday . In fact, he's the only living president with a favorable rating that's under 50 percent. The polls shows that 43% of people questioned had a favorable opinion of Bush, with 54% saying they had an unfavorable view. That's the same favorable rating Bush had in 2010 in CNN polling, but it is up from his mid-30's favorable rating during 2009. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/george-w-bush-favorable-rating-lowest-living-president-100010623.html

The most recent Social Security trustees report says that, under intermediate assumptions, the Social Security trust fund will be exhausted in 2033, which would result in a 23 percent reduction in benefits if Congress and future administrations do not deal with the shortfall. This is three years earlier than last year’s report. Obama did nothing but ruining the Social Security by cutting its revenue with 50%.