Even if user charges do not offer substantial revenue streams, surely they will deter people
from the trivial and unnecessary use of scarce health care resources. Well, why should they …

The US health care system is ostensibly market based and therefore at least partially reliant
on competition and consumer demand to regulate costs. Yet information about an essential …

Medicare and Medicaid have focused cost-containment efforts on constraining the prices
they pay for services. Public payers recognize the limits of this strategy and hope to develop …

FINANCIAL INCENTIVES ABOUND IN HEALTH CARE. THEY are found in the ways
physicians are paid and in the ways health insurance coverage, co-payments, and …

Editor's Note: In the post below, Uwe Reinhardt proposes to move from the present, price-
discriminatory system of private-sector pricing of health services toward an all-payer system …

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There is broad agreement that paying for value in health care makes more sense than
simply paying for volume (VanLare and Conway 2012; Porter and Lee 2015). Reflecting this …

Now that Congress has completed the epochal, exhausting, and contentious task of
enacting comprehensive health care reform, it must confront another health care issue that is …

Med Assoc J 1997; 156: 770-1) with great interest. I fail to understand why we do not institute
patient copayments in Canada, since nearly every patient I speak with is in favour of them. I …

The move to a value-based payment system was supposed to end perverse incentives that
pay doctors more for delivering often unnecessary services. But things are changing slowly …