Nearly nine of 10 leaders in health and health care policy say it is important for federal and state policymakers to continue efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act, according to the latest and final Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey. Survey respondents strongly support bringing annual increases in health care spending more in line with economic growth—a central goal of the Affordable Care Act and the president's recent deficit-reduction framework. For complete survey findings, read the new Commonwealth Fund data brief. And for commentary, read blog posts by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and by John Colmers, former secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and vice president for health care transformation and strategic planning at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
