How physicians will benefit under Clinton's plan

Abstract

President Clinton's healthcare reform plan will be good for primary care physicians, according to Judith Feder, one of the administration's top health policy advisers. During a 20-minute phone interview recently, she told postgraduate medicine that the goal is to reduce governmental and other kinds of hassles for practitioners while holding them accountable for results. Her responses to other concerns of physicians follow.

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Judith Feder

Judith Feder, PhD Dr Feder is principal deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—the department that is responsible for helping to oversee the alliances under the President's plan and for continuing to manage the Medicare program. The department's chief health policy analyst, she was chair of the working groups for the President's task force on healthcare reform. Before her appointment to HHS in March 1993, she served as director of the healthcare transition team for the Clinton administration.