The Globe continues its primary care focus with an editorial yesterday:
Medicare, the largest single payer of healthcare services in the country, inadvertently encourages uncoordinated, excessive care. In 1992 Congress established a physician payment system intended to limit costs, but the federal government gave advisory authority to a committee weighted in specialists’ favor.
(via Medrants)





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