“Health care” bill threatens your health care
March 31st, 2010 | by Brian Schwartz |Paul Hsieh, MD describes how “bundled payments” give doctors perverse incentives misaligned with your best interest:
One planned cost-cutting measure will be a new system of “bundled payments” where hospitals and physicians receive a fixed fee to take care of Medicare patients’ conditions (e.g., a stroke or a heart attack) regardless of how much the care actually costs. Proponents claim this will reward efficient care and reduce unnecessary tests and procedures. Pilot programs are already underway in some cities, and the ObamaCare legislation would expand these programs to the national level in 2013.
… this proposed Medicare “reform” would reward doctors and hospitals for denying care to their patients. …
Nor will this problem be confined to Medicare patients. As Betsy McCaughey notes, this will inevitably spill over onto patients with private insurance …
Read the whole article in Pajamas Media: The Real ObamaCare Fraud … bending the cost curve with covert rationing.
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