A new blog post by The Commonwealth Fund's Karen Davis and Stuart Guterman looks at three options for achieving Medicare and Medicaid savings: cutting eligibility and benefits, trimming payments, and ensuring that beneficiaries get the right care. And in his invited testimony this week before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, Guterman discussed how the Independent Payment Advisory Board, created under the Affordable Care Act, can help focus attention on controlling health care spending throughout the health system.
