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The basic health needs of most Medicare patients left behind by design

Robert Bowman, MD
Policy
April 1, 2012

Medicare needs to cut costs. It has chosen methods to cut costs that will damage the basic health care services needed by most Medicare patients. And instead of calling this cost cutting, it uses terms such as “shared savings.” Even worse, the “shared savings” will result in even less health spending in United States locations that already have lowest health spending. Innovative designs are not the problem. The problem is …

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The basic health needs of most Medicare patients left behind by design

Primary care gets caught in the physician pay crossfire

Robert Bowman, MD
Policy
September 16, 2011

Major journals have slipped in another article that apparently was designed for controversy and for widespread distribution to media outlets. The New York Times rapidly picked it up. As the nation enters the final months before 29.5% fee cuts for Medicare physician services, there will be many more of these that reach the light of day – too many if this is an indication.

What is common to major journals, media …

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