One of the central promises of Obamacare was to control cost and improve quality by changing the way we pay for health care. In all its guises that essentially means paying doctors and institutions more if they produce better results. Heres the problem: it doesnt work.
Bad News For Obamacare: Pay-For-Performance Doesnt Work
Also published in Forbes Mon. October 20, 2014
John C. Goodman is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research.
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