Went to the doc at Kaiser yesterday for a "here's the lab tests" appointment. He was highly complimentary of them ("go away and come back in 8 or 9 months"), so we spent a few minutes talking about health care reform.
He didn't express any feelings one way or the other about single-payer or public plans, but he agreed with me that paying doctors for treatments rather than outcomes was crazy. "We don't get paid for practicing preventive medicine," he said. He also thought that subsidizing med students if they promise to practice primary care for a set number of years made a lot of sense; he even cited some examples of that that he knew about, both here in Hawai'i and in the Marshall Islands.
One doctor at a time.
Posted by Linkmeister at September 2, 2009 01:38 PM | TrackBack