tailieunhanh - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FISCAL YEAR 2013

The two global initiatives alluded to above – Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) and the Global Plan – recognise the importance of strong health workforces and call for additional commitments on human resources to be made. EWEC, for instance, calls upon countries to strengthen health systems to deliver integrated, high quality services, and calls upon partners to work together to address critical shortages of health workers at all levels. The Global Plan has embedded in its approach the need to strengthen the human resources for health. Both EWEC and the Global Plan are dependent. | DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FISCAL YEAR 2013 Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore Maryland 21244-1850 CENTERS for MEDICARE a MEDICAID SERVICES Message from the Acting Administrator I am pleased to present the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services CMS fiscal year FY 2013 performance budget. Our programs will touch the lives of almost 106 million Medicare Medicaid and Children s Health Insurance Program CHIP beneficiaries in FY 2013. We take our role very seriously as our oversight responsibilities impact millions of vulnerable citizens and continue to grow dramatically. We now have an opportunity to help millions of Americans access affordable quality health care through strengthened consumer protections and the establishment of private health insurance programs. In addition to implementing these reforms we propose further improvements in our existing programs that directly contribute to significant savings and deficit reduction. Through better care for individuals better health for the population and lower cost through improvements CMS remains committed to strengthening and modernizing the Nation s health care system. This budget request reflects our commitment to the Medicare Medicaid and CHIP programs while highlighting progress toward the establishment of new Affordable Insurance Exchanges and protection programs. In an unprecedented effort for CMS we will make affordable health insurance available to millions of Americans through the implementation of Affordable Insurance Exchanges in 2014. All State-based and Federally-facilitated Exchanges must be ready to begin initial operations in FY 2013. Our resource needs are principally driven by workloads that grow annually and by our role in leading national efforts to improve efficiency health care quality and access to care not just for