Are doctors payment incentives ruining health care? Check out this NY Times article.
Are doctors payment incentives ruining health care? Check out this NY Times article. Doctors are faced with numerous forces that are coercing them into certain behaviors that may not necessarily be good for your health. Some doctors are recommending drugs based on your insurers wants, rather than your needs. Others, if they fail to follow a care path to help an insurer meet certain targets that may be detrimental to your health, rather than be helpful to it are penalizing them financially. In other cases, certain hospital systems have production targets. Basically, healthcare is being commoditized, using a one size
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