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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Should Doctors Get Paid Less If They Don’t Keep Patients Healthy?

My gut reaction is that this is a good idea. On the other hand, when Democrats and Republicans agree, the result can be terrible. The destruction of mental health care in the Reagan era is a classic example. The Right wanted to cut spending. The Left did not want people incarcerated in mental institutions against their will. Both noble objectives; however the powerful Law of Unintended Consequences stepped in and forced many of the mentally ill with no alternative to homelessness :-(

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Source:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/should-doctors-get-paid-less-if-they-don-t-keep-patients-healthy/282275/

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