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Paying for value. I’m overwhelmed. Please read this.

Society for Participatory Medicine

The more money spent on healthcare, the less money is spent on our wages, public health, safety, everything. Right now, most measures are diagnosis-specific for one setting (home, hospital, nursing home). Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance companies write the checks, but their accounts are filled by us as taxpayers and employees.

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Weekender 4/5/19

HIStalk Weekender

This reminds me that serious thinkers wonder whether diverting the last trillion or so marginal dollars from health care to education might actually improve public health outcomes more effectively. Do they pay a record storage fee to the HC org to hold their data? Randy Bak ). Clustered ). Can they modify their record?

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