Is Obamacare Changing the Way Doctors Practice Medicine?
September 25, 2014
News Article
Is Obamacare Changing the Way Doctors Practice Medicine?
Also published in Forbes Thu. September 25, 2014.
One of the goals of health reform was to change the way doctors practice medicine. Under Medicare’s fee-for-service payment system, we were told, physicians have an incentive to perform too many of the wrong kinds of services. As a result, the cost is too high and the quality of care is too low. Instead, we should pay for value rather than quantity, said the reformers.
