President Barack Obama will celebrate the fifth anniversary of his controversial signature health care act on Wednesday, joining Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to kick off a new effort to pitch the Affordable Care Act.
Obama’s remarks at the White House come at a kick-off meeting of the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, which the White House says aims to “bring public and private sector actors together to build on the Affordable Care Act's efforts to move health care toward a system that provides the best care for patients and pays providers based on the quality, rather than the quantity of care they give patients.”
The network aims to bring public and private sector actors together to expand an alternative payment plan to include private insurers, employers, consumers, state Medicaid programs and other partners.
The White House says that with support from leading doctor and patient groups like the American Medical Association, AARP the American Cancer Society, the American College of Physicians, and the American Hospital Association, the network “will serve as the forum for identifying challenges, sharing best practices, and holding its members, including Medicare, accountable for progress.”