WIth 30.6 percent of the nation covered by Medicaid and Medicare programs, Donald Berwick is key to the success of the Affordable Health Act. That alone makes him central to reforms that will affect people with a behavioral health disorder whose life expectancy is a quarter-century less than the rest of the population. Peter Brown writes about how Berwick's achievements model new ways of thinking, that could be applied to improving behavioral health.
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