Is Health Care Reform Dead?
Is health care “reform” falling apart, probably not? Congress is still rushing full speed ahead despite growing realization that there is no reform going on, but rather expansion of coverage and little else. Health care reform in its current form should fall apart and rather than pushing an ideology, let’s try reform. From Massachusetts to Washington, DC, old ideas are becoming new again. Physician capitation and group practice is in the news. In the Sunday July 19 Washington Post an article notes that a new idea is the use of team of health care professionals coordinated by a primary-care physician. Massachusetts wants capitation in lieu of fee for service. Obama wants to expand health care without increasing the deficit, ok, but what does that to do with the growth of health care costs that are more than twice-general inflation? The President repeatedly talks about the stress on the economy caused by health care costs, again, ok, but what does legislation that expands coverage and do
