It starts with physician payment reform

Peter Bach, in a NY Times op-ed: “Without changes to the way Medicare pays doctors, the fights in Congress over raising or lowering payment rates will continue. And doctors will still have no financial incentive to do what is most important: spend more time with their patients.”

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