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Re:I'm a Brit and America, your health care system is tortur... by dragonwriter on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:42PM (#18828829)
Let me expand on that: Medicare has recognized the problems you mentioned and has, fairly recently, begun directing efforts through payment system at the first broad class (inefficient interventions) through adoption of a variety of quality-incentive payment systems. But those aren't going to be as broadly effective, even for Medicare fee-for-service patients, as they could be if delivery systems and practice is shaped by conflicting incentives from different payers (who may be involved in covering some of the same claims, because coordination of benefits is a real thing, and even when they aren't for the same claims, will often over time be for treatment of the same patient.)

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