You can respectfully disagree, I got no argument there.
But the Government is NOT instituting these ‘quality control’ measures based on any science at all. Nothing they have demanded to ‘meet standards; is means tested or validated. It is purely economical.
Go research the most recent recommended ‘standards’ re: blood glucose control in peri-op CABG patients, published less than a few months ago...which they promptly and recently threw out as they realized that more patients were being harmed by hospitals trying to comply with their ‘standards’ so the standard was ditched in short order...before any stats were evident or published.
How can you trust an entity that has a HUGE financial interest in the process setting the standards that will determine the payment for that service? Seriously?
So you are advocating letting hospitals bill whatever they want without any measurement of success?
Because if you are not applying standards—most of which have been around for a long time—then you have no idea who is doing anything correctly.
As conservatives, how do you suggest the government pay their bills through medicare?
Can you please explain some ways that we can do this, today, across a broad spectrum of patients that is growing daily as people hit 62 by the millions.