Trump Administration Launches Program to Rein In Medicare Costs

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The Trump administration is launching a program to offer new ways of paying primary-care doctors as a way to lessen the costs of Medicare's usual fee-for-service system

The Trump administration is launching a program to offer new ways of paying primary-care doctors, including flat monthly payments to physicians and higher payments for medical practices specializing in the chronically ill, as a way to lessen the costs of Medicare’s usual fee-for-service system.

Seema Verma, the Medicare administrator under President Trump, said the flat-fee method and other payment alternatives could be a path for the Medicare payment system to achieve better outcomes for patients instead of the current fee-for-service...

 

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Не нам долгого договорного прекращения геноцида/он может опять растянуться на века/единственным законным управляющим может и должен быть монарх Российской империи навсегда в охране народа/противостоянии МНТ евреев.

Wasn’t this the Pathological Lying 45 who said he wouldn’t touch Medicare and Social Security?

Primary-care doctors don't get paid a lot under Medicare. And they are more & more difficult to find. I can think of 100 conspiratorial reasons they would do this at this Medicare-For-All- leaning moment. Maybe just more spaghetti against the wall.

What could possibly go wrong?

Most studies readily show that physician charges are NOT what is so expensive -it’s hospitals! Cap them and length of stays will decrease. Tort reform would also decrease needless CYA testing that isn’t necessary.

realDonaldTrump freemarket MedicareForAll

Lower docs admin costs...

When people are on Medicare they usually need to see the doctor for more visits cause they have more need for more medication too. By the time people get to that age the stress of life has made us vunerable to high blood pressure and all the problems stress adds.

If doctors could get a degree without having extraordinary debt loads, I imagine their services could also be much more reasonably priced.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DOES JUST ONE THING EVERYDAY LIE AND TRY TO COVERUP realDonaldTrump CRIMES!

This should be good sarcasm

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