It is saying that we want to reform the Medicare system in the new health care to make sure the doctors worry more about quality than quantity. Before doctors got paid about 5 to 10 percent less for helping a medicare patient and they accually got paid more if they missed diagnosid a patient. So their patient would have to keep coming back and they would get more money that way. So in some places medicare started a "pay-for-preformance." So doctors got paid more if they were better to there patients. If they helped patients and tell them how and what they should do to lower your blood level for example; Medicare would accually pay the doctor about 1.5 percent more than they do with usuall patients. They noticed that when they started this in some hopitals it improve the quality of care, like some had 1,300 less deaths from heart attacks sense they started the program. Though they think you should not have to get paid more to get the quality health care as somebody else.
I think we should reform the medicare program to make sure everybody on Medicare has "pay-for-preformance." If doctors are willing to work better and hard to get the right information and diagnoses why wouldn't you pay them a little bit more! Everything is based on money, of course if you have a opportunity to make more money you will take it and now that they now about you have to give it to them or their work will probally slip alittle bit more towards those patients. Then also to support my reasoning to back the new "pay-for-preformance" the medicare system so far is going in the crapper. It is going to go bank rupt soon if we not change the current way it is run. Becuase of the programs right now it is costing America to much to cover the current plan. We need to look back out bushs plan that cut about &70 million dollars. We need to try to have some thign more drastic than that to help recover this system! But the Medicare should be reformed to help keep the program going and to be in proved in a overall aspect.
Those opposed to this idea think that federal officials "do not have the capability, the understanding, the knowledge or the training" to be able to set standards for the quality of medical care. They think it will become "cookbook medicine." They don't want the government to undermine legitimate doctors' autonomy and judgement. Another argument they use is that doctors are supposed to provide "quality care" at all times, and it's not something that should be a bonus.
I agree with the opposing side. It's great to reward doctors for good work, but if my life is in someone's hands, I'm expecting them to do their best because that's the job they chose, and because it's my health and life. It's not like getting a gold star in first grade because you wrote something in cursive, it's someone's life and they should be expected to do their absolute best all the time. If doctors are doing something above and beyond, outside their job then yeah, they should have some kind of compensation, but for just doing their job they should get their usual.
John McCain's view on healthcare: http://www.johnmccain.com/issues/post/reforming-health-care-in-america/
I think we should reform the medicare program to make sure everybody on Medicare has "pay-for-preformance." If doctors are willing to work better and hard to get the right information and diagnoses why wouldn't you pay them a little bit more! Everything is based on money, of course if you have a opportunity to make more money you will take it and now that they now about you have to give it to them or their work will probally slip alittle bit more towards those patients. Then also to support my reasoning to back the new "pay-for-preformance" the medicare system so far is going in the crapper. It is going to go bank rupt soon if we not change the current way it is run. Becuase of the programs right now it is costing America to much to cover the current plan. We need to look back out bushs plan that cut about &70 million dollars. We need to try to have some thign more drastic than that to help recover this system! But the Medicare should be reformed to help keep the program going and to be in proved in a overall aspect.
Those opposed to this idea think that federal officials "do not have the capability, the understanding, the knowledge or the training" to be able to set standards for the quality of medical care. They think it will become "cookbook medicine." They don't want the government to undermine legitimate doctors' autonomy and judgement. Another argument they use is that doctors are supposed to provide "quality care" at all times, and it's not something that should be a bonus.
I agree with the opposing side. It's great to reward doctors for good work, but if my life is in someone's hands, I'm expecting them to do their best because that's the job they chose, and because it's my health and life. It's not like getting a gold star in first grade because you wrote something in cursive, it's someone's life and they should be expected to do their absolute best all the time. If doctors are doing something above and beyond, outside their job then yeah, they should have some kind of compensation, but for just doing their job they should get their usual.
John McCain's view on healthcare: http://www.johnmccain.com/issues/post/reforming-health-care-in-america/
Issue # 1
http://kellimontbriand.blogspot.com/2010/11/issue-1-comprehensive-vs-incremental.html
Issue # 3
http://emilyewblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/issue-3-safe-to-eat.html
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