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LawDeeDah

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4. MEDICARE WILL PAY DOCTORS MORE WHEN PATIENTS GET HEALTHIER

Reply to Triana (Original post)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:09 PM

Jan 2015

and this will make some folks here go ballistic like this is a bad thing. Wait, it will be twisted into some grotesque and evil plan Obama has for sick people.

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Obamacare 2.0: the White House's radical new plan to change how doctors get paid [View all] Triana Jan 2015 OP

stupid idea that hurts the most ill and the most poor. Vattel Jan 2015 #1

Explain NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #3

It doesn't discourage doctors from over-prescribing. Vattel Jan 2015 #13

Incentivizing good medicine is a perverse incentive? NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #14

No, incentivizing types of practices that typically have good outcomes is the problem. Vattel Jan 2015 #15

Who says? That is ridiculous. NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #16

Calm down and just tell me how they would take that into account. Vattel Jan 2015 #17

If your job is to take care of terminal patients, you are then saying they would punish you NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #18

Palliative care of terminal patients is one thing. That would be easy to make an exception for. Vattel Jan 2015 #20

I think the argument is daredtowork Jan 2015 #23

It hurts shitty doctors. tridim Jan 2015 #5

The doctors that help the sickest patients will be penalized. eShirl Jan 2015 #10

No they wont. There will be exceptions for serious chronic illness. nt tridim Jan 2015 #11

So then everything becomes a "serious chronic illness" former9thward Jan 2015 #21

This will drive some folks nuts... NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #2

MEDICARE WILL PAY DOCTORS MORE WHEN PATIENTS GET HEALTHIER LawDeeDah Jan 2015 #4

It would not fund end-of-life care? Jackpine Radical Jan 2015 #7

I haven't read the entire article, it's quite lengthy and very interesting. LawDeeDah Jan 2015 #9

Prescription fees!!! QuebecYank Jan 2015 #6

+++ those doctors are imposters. And there are a lot of them. LawDeeDah Jan 2015 #8

I See Two Possible Flaws In This.... global1 Jan 2015 #12

In geriatrics, it can often be counted a success if the patient just doesn't get worse. WillowTree Jan 2015 #19

Does this disincentize a doctor from confirming disability? daredtowork Jan 2015 #22