The future of our healthcare system is what is called ACOs or Accountable Care Organizations. If you don't know what that entails then you are like everyone else. If you doubt that it will work then, once again, you are like everyone else. Here is some information from others who do know about ACOs:
Perhaps the biggest sign of the depth of disappointment among ACOs-in-waiting came May 12, when the 10 medical groups participating in a Medicare pilot program that paved the way for the ACO program declared that none would participate if the rule were not substantially modified. “As currently proposed, ACOs have a greater potential for incurring losses … than for generating savings. This risk-reward imbalance makes it difficult, if not impossible, for internal decision makers to accept the financial design,” they wrote in a letter to Berwick.
Of course in true government hypocrisy this monstrosity is being slammed down our throats. I just hope one day that the idiots behind this garbage are held accountable. That means you, Don Berwick MD. Oh, Donny Boy.........
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