But the reality is that in several hospital-based health studies, status has been stable and we haven't seen high complications or readmission rates for years. DRGs have turned out to be a tremendous success. That has worked splendidly. That's been the single greatest success in the history of reimbursement in the U.S. health care system. I think that's exactly the model for how we ought to pay primary care physicians.
Physicians are the U.S. health care system.
They always have been and they always will be. As a society, we respect doctors and we don't respect insurance bureaucrats. When you are desperately ill you don't run to your HMO's web site. You run to your doctor. It's not going to be a whole lot different any time soon.