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Ryan
Statement on Administration’s Recent Steps to Improve Patients’ Access to
Health Care Quality and Price Information
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On August 22, 2006, President Bush issued
an Executive Order that directs federal agencies that administer or
sponsor federal health insurance programs to share with beneficiaries
information about prices paid to health care providers for procedures, as
well as information about the quality of services provided by physicians,
hospitals and other health care providers.
Congressman Ryan, who has fought for greater openness and disclosure of
health care price and quality information to health care consumers,
applauded this step forward. His statement about this Executive Order is
below:
“In order to make informed health care decisions, patients and their
families need access to accurate, up-to-date, easy-to-understand
information about health care providers’ prices and quality of care. The
President’s recent directive helps move us toward realizing this goal.
By requiring federal programs to open up and share their price and quality
information with beneficiaries, the government can help ensure that more
health care consumers are armed with the facts they need to get the best
quality care, while lowering costs at the same time.”
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