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Amid the political banter that continues to surround the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, 32 accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in CMS’s Pioneer ACO Model dove in headfirst to see if this new model for aggregating, coordinating, and financing health care accomplishes the state goals of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim Initiative [1]: (1) to improve patients’ experience of care, (2) to improve population health, and (3) to reduce costs.