A sicker population, and a fee for service reimbursement system are driving factors. Want to solve the problem? Go back to capitati . . . oops, already tried that.
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The article doesn’t say that FFS is the driving factor–that is your belief. It cites what we have long been expecting to increase utilization at this point–aging baby boomers.
Baby boomers are NOT going to age gracefully. They are going to see ill health as an anomaly and not a normal part of the aging process and are going to take their narcissistic entitlement mentality into their senior years to the institutions serving the elderly wrecking havoc with their self-centered expectations just as they did with universities, the tort sytem, employment law, sexual morality, and family stability.
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