According to Andy Slavitt, CMS Acting Administrator and Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, CMS Acting Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Medical Officer (in an 11/2/16 blog post):

...our country's health care system historically invested far more in treating sickness than maintaining health. This imbalance contributes to more spending on institutions, hospitals, and nursing homes, rather than keeping people healthy at home and in their communities.

By better valuing primary care, care coordination and prevention, we help people access the services they need to stay well. In addition to keeping people healthy, health care costs are often lower when people have a primary care provider and team of doctors and clinicians overseeing and coordinating their care. And efforts to reduce documentation burden in care management and coordination, tied in with our strategy of physician and clinician engagement, helps keep the focus on patient care that pays for what works and better supports and engages the medical community...today, Medicare is finalizing policies that improve how it pays for primary care, care coordination, and mental health care, and expanding an exciting CMS Innovation Center payment and service delivery model that aims to prevent diabetes.

Joel White, president of the Council for Affordable Health Coverage, in a Nov. 2, 2016 Fierce Healthcare post, writes:

 

Bill Clinton did the unthinkable in American politics when he said the Affordable Care Act is a "crazy system" in which premiums doubled and coverage was cut in half. He told the truth. A recent survey sponsored by the American College of Emergency Physicians found that most Americans agree with the former president. The survey reported that 55 percent are paying more or much more for their care, while 81 percent said their coverage has stayed the same or gotten worse.