As noted in an earlier post, fee-for-service health care (a doctor’s financial incentive to order tests and conduct procedures) will be something addressed here in length. To be clear, the healthcare industry problems are layered, knotted and just messy. From what I have gathered in minimal experience, no one party is entirely at fault,  solutions will require thoughtfullness and compromise from all ends, including we the patients.

This is an essay that ran in The New York Times this week written by a Long Island cardiologist, it’s worth a read.

Here is the Wall Street Journal Health blog’s reaction.

I continue to hear people say (I being one of them) that we need to come up with a system that pays doctor’s to keep people well. The problem, as the WSJ Health blog notes, is coming up with a fair system of  compensation. Through my continued experience I will post ideas, but my greatest hope is to start some kind of dialogue. I anxiously await your thoughts, ideas and comments…

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