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Outgoing HHS Secretary touts successes, says more work must be done
Improving quality of health care and ensuring access to it should be priorities of the next administration, outgoing HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell wrote recently. “The American people do not want to turn back our nation’s progress,” Burwell wrote in a blog post that appeared on the Health Affairs website. “Improvements need to be made, but they need to build on progress and not take us backwards in terms of access (the number of insured), affordability (costs to individuals, businesses, and taxpayers), and quality (the benefits that are being provided).”