Before leaving office, Obama published a piece in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, about health care reform. He, along with other Democrats, have continued to push for universal health care coverage in this country via Medicaid expansion in every state. Some may argue that “bundling” eliminates the critical thinking of medicine, but the critical thinking remains in deciding upon what additional measures to take in a sick patient. But holding health care entities accountable for patient outcomes to reduce health care costs seems to be a double-edged sword. Alternate payment models seem to punish providers for these patients, which could result in preferential treatment of or “cherry-picking” healthy patients while sick patients are neglected.

Source: Huffington Post April 01, 2017 19:52 UTC