Obamacare 2.0: the White House's radical new plan to change how doctors get paid

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

Doctors get paid more when they deliver more medicine

The best way for a doctor to make money in the United States for decades now has simple: prescribe treatments.

The American health-care system by and large runs on what experts describe as a "fee-for-service" system. For every service a doctor provides — whether that's a primary care physician conducting an annual physical or an orthopedic surgeon replacing a knee — they typically get a lump sum.

That's how most businesses work. Apple gets more money when it sells more iPads and the Ford gets more money when it sells more cars. But health care isn't like iPads or cars. Or, at least, it's not supposed to be.

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But here's the thing: most American doctors aren't paid on whether they deliver that improved health. Their income largely depends on whether or not they performed the surgery, regardless of patient outcomes. Their patient's knee could be good as new or busted as always at the end — but, in most cases, that doesn't factor into their surgeon's ultimate pay.

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Maybe you can cut/paste what you are talking about that the article covers?