Role of regulation in value-based health care

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14. I'm not talking about where you put the OP

or what the rules are.

I'm talking about your own reasons for posting something that was so heavily edited.

My familiarity with O'Shea and Health Affairs is greater than you would imagine, so that observation is flawed.

John O’Shea, MD, is currently a practicing surgeon and senior fellow in the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. Prior to taking his current position, he was a visiting scholar in health policy at the Brookings Institution. From 2011 to 2013, he served as a senior health policy adviser to the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where he helped draft the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) that replaced the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for reimbursing physician services in the Medicare program.

I have no knowledge of O'Shea's opinon or lack of one on this post at PNHP, and don't expect him to publish one - as such I never stated that there was animosity on the part of O'Shea - strawman. I pointed out that they reprinted the blog post without the citations that the author (O'Shea) felt were important enough to link to in the text, and that in and of itself is a red flag for accuracy in research citations. Is that clearer?

"His opinion is countered by the physicians response," - OK, you finally got what I was saying... and it seems that you think that a retired physician who is lobbying for Single Payer's response to the blog "counters" that of the physican and reputable expert in health policy who authored the blog, because you support single payer, and will give more weight to any response that supports it.

I also pointed out other instance of PNHP editing an Obama quote to the point of eliminating the context that shows that Obama followed up with a statement about why Single Payer wasn't practical. You certainly don't want to discuss that, and I can see why.