Episode
Don Berwick MD: How to fix American healthcare: Part 2
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- 20-Minute Health Talk
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- Jun 11, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1559
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Summary
Dr. Berwick challenges some basic assumptions: Does competition truly drive innovation in health care? He argues that cooperation often outperforms competition, citing VA-led safety advances and national patient-safety collaboratives at CMS (like the Partnership for Patients) that rewarded results and spread what worked.