Salaried Doctors Might Be the Answer to the Healthcare Crisis

Recently NBC Nightly News suggested that doctors on salary might be the answer to the healthcare crisis. Specifically, without a financial incentive to do more, that is reimbursement which is fee for service, that doctors can focus more on medical care rather than making a business and living.

They point to Kaiser Permanente as an example.

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Tim Russert's Legacy on Heart Disease

Tim Russert's untimely death from heart disease has appeared to have many focus on decreasing their risks by quitting smoking, exercise, decreasing blood pressure and taking cholesterol lowering medications. Kudos to being unbiased in reporting that many of the fancy hi-tech scanners don't help determine whether a future heart attack is imminent. As the reporter correctly pointed out, no test is perfect.

The report also clarifies that Mr. Russert had everything humanly possible to decrease his risk from America's number one killer.