A health economist acknowledges how financing experiments failed our health system
I read a superb commentary in STAT, “Value-based payment has produced little value. It needs a time-out,” that reviews the failures of “value-based care” and the failure of its promoters to acknowledge those failures. Ideas conceived, tested and found lacking, and used as the basis for more of the same. Distracting from real health system reform.
So I thought, wouldn’t it be terrific if the originators of flawed health …