Opinion: Advice for the next CMS administrator’s first 100 days

This week four years ago, I was working for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, helping lead the national Medicaid program. The Affordable Care Act was hitting its stride. The number of uninsured people was at a historic low. The rate of people being readmitted to hospitals soon after being discharged was coming down.

But costs were unsustainably rising, health care providers were burning out, and the opioid crisis was spiraling out of control.

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