Health Care Is Tougher Than Peace

Health care is so complex that any single way of paying doctors and hospitals is going to promote some dimensions of quality and discourage other dimensions of quality. Medicare tilted the playing field toward one way of paying for medical care we call it fee-for-service financing and fragmented delivery. It also encourages them to provide services that are not going to help you or that have very low value or negative value because they end up harming you in fact.