Bad Medicine
The Obama administration prescribes pay-for-performance for doctors. What could possibly go wrong?
Do you ever feel as though reading one more word about our failed and failing public schools will cause your head to pop off of its very brain stem and spin wildly in the air before reattaching itself at an angle most askew? That is what is known as a medical condition, reader, which is why I am prescribing for you an immediate treatment course consisting of a winebox, bed rest and a change of scenery. Today’s topic: health care—specifically the Obama administration’s brilliant new policy of rewarding the excellence of doctors and hospitals through an innovative approach called *pay for performance.* What could possibly go wrong?
Code pinkAs the consumer of a great many medical dramas, I know that the first step towards treating an improbably obscure ailment is to diagnose it. In short, our health care system is (f)ailing and all of its graduates will eventually pass on to the waiting Bad Medicine | EduShyster: