MedPage Today January 18, 2019
-Doc and one-time presidential candidate talk ACOs, Medicare for All
WASHINGTON — Discussing healthcare reform is pointless unless you decide to get rid of fee-for-service medicine, according to Howard Dean, MD.
Under the current system, “you only make money if people get really sick,” Dean, an internist and former Democratic governor of Vermont, said Thursday at an event sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute. “Every financial incentive we have in American healthcare is to spend as much as we possibly can.”
And putting in value-based reimbursement won’t help, said Dean, who was also a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004. “I think value-based reimbursement is BS; it’s a short-term solution so nobody has to do what really has to be...
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