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Fee-for-service and medical quality

Michael Cannon speaks on how the fee-for-service method of paying for medical care provides poor incentives for medical quality.  As he writes here,

Rather than allow a level playing field for all payment systems, so that competition forces them all to improve, government tips the scales toward fee-for-service.  Medicare is the largest purchaser of medical services in the U.S., and it operates largely on a fee-for-service basis.

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