Issue #2

It says that Medicare has been poorly used by the doctors because they get paid by the quantity not quality of the service they do. So some of the elderly people that come in for their medicare the government will pay for the first medicine they receive but then sometimes the doctors knowingly give them the wrong perscription. Same goes with people who use medicaid if they come in to get medicine the doctors still use the quantity factor on how they get paid. But finally in 2006 a law passed that based the pay on quality of performance. Giving doctors who help people with medicare a 1.5 percent bonus if they fill out the quality of their service. But some people say that this does not help Doctors make the right choices but only gives them the quickest way to help patients.

I think that it is right to have the doctors and hospitals get paid extra for effectivley treat patients with the best things possible, that proves that the doctors do care about helping people out and don't just go through to motions with every person. I also think that if they help people with medicare because they can see which doctor is the best and which one helps out their customers the most. I also think that people who cheated the patients and giving them wrong medicine and having them come back over and over to get better ones that will solve the illness or problem just to get paid more is wrong. http://www.medrants.com/archives/1670



issue 1- http://briansoccer77.blogspot.com/2010/11/issue-one-comprehensive-vs-incremental.html