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Docs Told They Must Drive Health System Change (focus on "cost value" first, not the patient)
Medpage Today ^ | April 11, 2013 | David Pittman

Posted on 04/13/2013 9:00:44 AM PDT by Innovative

Doctors are the only people who can drive the change in healthcare delivery that's needed to save the country from a financial crisis, a health policy expert said here.

Emanuel highlighted six elements that must underline payment and delivery reform efforts:

-- Focus on cost value

-- Focus on the patient

-- Standardize processes

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"We need a big infrastructure to be able to deliver high-quality care going forward," Emanuel said.

(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; abortion; deathpanels; doctors; governmentcontrol; guncontrol; healthcare; medicine; obamacare; obamacaredoctors; secondamendment; socializedmedicine; zerocare
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It used to be focus on patient first, now "focus on cost value" ... "standardized processes"... and you know what that means...
1 posted on 04/13/2013 9:00:44 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative
"We need a big infrastructure to be able to deliver high-quality care going forward," Emanuel said. "I've consulted with my friends the Tooth Fairy and the Skittle Pooping Unicorn, and they assure me that this is possible."
2 posted on 04/13/2013 9:04:28 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Gosnell - Media ignores murder of thousands of UNDOCUMENTED humans - Democrats cheer)
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To: Innovative

So will the change thier oath? “ First .... do things cheaply. “


3 posted on 04/13/2013 9:04:47 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: Mygirlsmom

No, this is full on real Moose poop. We don’t need a big infrastucture if both the Government and the Big Employers got out of providing so-called medical insurance. If the individual states and cities want to develop programs for their poor CITIZENS (note, no illegal/undocumented trespassers need apply), that’s fine with me. I wouldn’t live anywhere that was giving away the farm like NYC and Chicago, etc. All of us, regardless of age, should be able to buy our own insurance that meets our needs. Costs would drop precipitously because insurance would take its rightful place as a “risk” based product. Notice how the discussion interchangeably uses the words COST and PRICE. Big difference. Hospitals have long been charging way more than they ever recover in actual payments from insurance companies. If you don’t have insurance, you get charged the full price. It’s really quite a racket.


4 posted on 04/13/2013 9:23:23 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Mygirlsmom

But this is just the first sixth of our economy. We won’t have real efficiency until housing and food and exercise (recreation) have a very large infrastructure as well. Arguably, government, transportation and education already have very large infrastrctures of their own.

Hail progress!


5 posted on 04/13/2013 9:25:50 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Innovative

While talking to my dermo a couple of weeks ago, I was told that since they are being forced to upgrade/digitize just about everything there would be less hours available for actually seeing and treating patients. Appointments would be more scarce and patient time would be shorter. Sounds like a good idear to me. NOT!


6 posted on 04/13/2013 9:27:42 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: Innovative
"We need a big infrastructure to be able to deliver high-quality care going forward"

In other words..."Dear Mr. Washington Health Care Bureaucrat: May I please, please, PLEASE have this operation to save my life?"

My small infrastructure local clinic and university hospital have done perfectly well for decades.

I hate these bastards and what they are doing.

7 posted on 04/13/2013 9:32:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Innovative

The old is new: WWII Army sick call, “Here’s your aspirin, next!”


8 posted on 04/13/2013 9:35:01 AM PDT by RicocheT (Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
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9 posted on 04/13/2013 9:40:46 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Innovative
"We need a big infrastructure to be able to deliver high-quality care going forward," Emanuel said.

It's that "big infrastructure" that's created the mess we're in. It started with WW2 wage controls adding health insurance as an employment benefit, the 1965 Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare) supercharged it and now Obamacare has it flying into the mountain at full speed and on afterburners.

If you ever want to see a higher quality product at a lower cost, you'd need a smaller infrastructure, with less government control.

10 posted on 04/13/2013 9:41:02 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Innovative

Docs should say, “There were no doctors included in the writing of the legislation, why should we push it?”


11 posted on 04/13/2013 9:47:19 AM PDT by SuziQ
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If I had to run my practice like that, there would be a lot of unhappy clients. It’s not about the money you know. If you are running a bank, yes, a medical or legal practice, it’s about the client with the problem.


12 posted on 04/13/2013 9:56:41 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Innovative

Thomas Sowell:

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”


13 posted on 04/13/2013 9:57:51 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Welcome to Obama-Land - EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY)
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To: Mygirlsmom

“We need a big infrastructure to be able to deliver high-quality care going forward,”

This is such a load of crap. Hasn’t ANYONE in government heard of the KISS system? Adding on to the government infrastructure every day is what’s gotten us where we are today. These twits want to push us over the edge.


14 posted on 04/13/2013 9:58:39 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Innovative

What would you expect from Rahm Emanuel’s brother?


15 posted on 04/13/2013 10:10:05 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Innovative

Too old, too sick, too bad...no treatment for you.


16 posted on 04/13/2013 10:17:42 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Innovative

Not in a very long time has the medical system focused on patient first.

And that’s one reason the cost of medical care has gone way out of control, much like the trend in college tuition.

Our medical system is sick. It thrives on sick people and it takes money form insurance companies and the gov’t in medicare.

And that is why a destructive force can move in and take it over.

Actually, what used to be, and what was, not ‘better’ but complimentary, was people taking responsibility for their health.

The wise will want to do this and to help their families do so.

The AMA embraced abortion rights. It will fall as will all other systems that embrace killing innocents.

The best route is to take care of one’s health, avoid the medical system have catastrophic insurance if possible and find mds that will cooperate.


17 posted on 04/13/2013 10:33:22 AM PDT by stanne
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To: al_c

They changed their oath when they embraced pro abortion.


18 posted on 04/13/2013 10:34:11 AM PDT by stanne
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To: rktman

That’s just the beginning. No one’s checking and reporting on the decline in med students. who would go into medicine?

No, there will be a scarcity in medical care that will bear many results.


19 posted on 04/13/2013 10:36:22 AM PDT by stanne
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To: RicocheT

Pshaw! At that standard, and without improving its own standard, Army medical care will be the best in the nation in short time.


20 posted on 04/13/2013 10:38:07 AM PDT by stanne
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