News About Obamacare Has Been Bad Lately. How Bad?

[karynnj]

19. The affordable care act also included provisions that have led to tests for other models for paying

for medical services. Long ago, I saw a film created by doctors that advocated for different ways that insurance companies (including Medicare) could remunerate doctors for their work. It argued that the existing fee for service had a problem as it led to incentives that would increase pay, but not improve results. A main complaint of the doctors was that they did not become doctors to spend hours (or staff hours) negotiating with insurance company people.

Here is an article from earlier this month, of one such study. Note that Medicare is doing the study and even in a Medicare for all world, the idea is that it could lead to better medical care possibly (but not necessarily) at a lower cost.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/11/473802292/medicare-seeks-savings-and-innovation-with-a-switch-in-doctors-pay