If we can fix health care for people with complex health conditions, we can fix health care for everybody. That’s why everyone who thinks we need a better health care system needs to be paying attention to Ohio’s efforts to create a demonstration project to integrate care for people... (READ MORE)

Much to its credit, the Kasich administration has developed a proposed demonstration project to improve care for people who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare.  Many people who are “dually eligible” desperately need better coordinated care and this writer believes that OHT is trying to get it right. But advocates for older adults and people with disabilities worry that the rushed process, pressure from managed care plans, inadequacy of conversations with consumers may lead to real problems.