“and other alternative approaches to payment that reward clinical systems of care for providing improved outcomes at lower costs. “
So basically, there is more money to be made treating healthy people than trying to treat those who are the most sick.
Have you noticed lately how many articles describe all the procedures we’ve always been told to have done by such and such age — that now they aren’t needed, or can wait or were never needed at all?
Sounds to me like the cost cutting has already begun.