In fact, it's likely to make things worse.
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Health Policy
One Fewer Pediatrician
The current health care system is doing a good job of driving away primary care providers by fixing it so that the harder they work, the less they make.
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Why Pay-For-Performance in Medical Practice Won’t Work
In fact, it's likely to make things worse.
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How Greed Makes for Bad Doctors
The study of motivation in economic rewards models provides us a framework by which to look at how greed and the drive to maximize profit leads to more expensive and poorer quality health care.
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Even Patients are Marginalizing Primary Care
Patients take their cues from the current system where primary care providers are seen as little more than purposeless "gatekeepers".
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Nurse Practitioners and the “Art of Medicine”
Do nurse practitioners have the training and experience to understand and apply the "art" of medicine in their practices?
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Texas Border Health Sucks
A 2009 survey of 353,000 American adults from 187 metro areas asked 13 questions about basic access to health care and healthy lifestyles.
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Three Cheaper Alternatives to Expensive Tests.
These three simple tests could save money and improve health care quality but, as usual, they are not covered by insurance.
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MRI Abuse
What happens when your health care provider doesn't have either the time or the experience and training to perform a proper diagnostic work up for your symptoms? Why, they just order an MRI!
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How the Federal Government Screwed up Health Care Costs
Health care costs just keep going up. You can blame anyone you want but currently the elephant in the room is the Federal government and the dysfunctional way it establishes Medicare reimbursement rates.
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Massachusetts to Force Doctors to Accept Lower Rates or Lose License
What the hell is going on in Massachusetts?
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