WASHINGTON -- Almost everyone agrees that America's health care system has the incentives all wrong. Under the fee-for-service system, doctors and hospitals get paid for doing more, even if added tests, operations and procedures have little chance of improving patients' health. So what happens when someone proposes that we alter the incentives to reward better care, not more care? Well, Rep. Paul Ryan and Republicans found out. No surprise: Democrats slammed them for "ending Medicare as we know it."This predictably partisan reaction -- preying upon the anxieties of...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/06/ending_medicare_as_we_know_it_110086.html
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