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An excellent article in the Times highlighting Bassett Hospital in New York where they pay their physicians a salary. Their costs are in the bottom 10% of NY Hospitals but their quality ranks in the top 90%.
This is true across the board. Fragmenting doctors into independent practitioners tied together by nothing but a desire to get paid as much as they can always leads to markedly lower quality.
The doctors at Bassett take a financial hit to do their jobs better than 90% of other physicians.
This is the future of healthcare in America. There will be two camps. Doctors who want professional satisfaction by practicing higher quality medicine for less pay. And the others who want to practice quantity medicine and sacrifice their patients’ health.
