The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
To some, the failure to sustain neighborhood health centers according to their original formulation is surprising, given the conceptual strength of the model, but in retrospect, this evolution might have been predicted. Like the broader policies and programs that made up the War on Poverty, the idea of neighborhood health centers was initiated from
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Fights market consolidation. The government can negotiate a much lower rate on what to pay providers and pharmaceuticals, compared to what is paid today.
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Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
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transition away from a fee-for-service model and toward an “accountable care” system in which doctors and hospitals are paid a set fee to manage the overall health of patients. One of the primary advantages of this approach is that it would reorient the incentives regarding innovation.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Like the modern school system, hospital-based health care fits the principle that those who have will receive even more and those who have not will be taken for the little that they have. In schooling this means that high consumers of education will get postdoctoral grants, while dropouts learn that they have failed. In medicine the same principle
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