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The CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation has selected seven geographic markets to carry out the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative​, a new multi-payer approach that aims to strengthen the primary care system, achieve better care, and lower costs through improvement.

The Boston Globe reported on 4/9/12 that 60% of cancer patients die in a hospital, 25% of them in intensive care, regardless of whether patients are treated by doctors at community hospitals, teaching hospitals or specialized cancer care centers, according to a Dartmouth study of Medicare patients released on Monday.  

An analysis published in the 4/9/12 Health Affairs found that the $2.5 trillion (over $8,000 per capita) that the U.S. spent on health care in 2009 this money is “worth it”: cancer patients in the U.S. who were diagnosed from 1995 to 1999 lived an average of 11.1 years after that, compared with 9.3 years for those in 10 European countries.​