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A Group of Health CEOs Wants To End Medicare Fee-For-Service Payments

KFF Health News Original

Some CEOs of America’s largest health care providers called Friday for an end to fee-for-service payments under Medicare and incentives to create administrative efficiencies to lower costs to help pay for America’s try at health care reform.

New Yorker Article Sparks Strong Reaction

KFF Health News Original

Surgeon and author Atul Gawande’s recent article in The New Yorker is generating intense discussion about the cost of medicine and exerting a powerful influence over the health reform debate.