Great article by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker where he does some serious snooping around as to why health care costs are skyrocketing. His conclusion: it's how we pay the doctors.
Somewhere in the United States at this moment, a patient with chest pain, or a tumor, or a cough is seeing a doctor. And the damning question we have to ask is whether the doctor is set up to meet the needs of the patient, first and foremost, or to maximize revenue.
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