Friday, March 14, 2014

Bureaucrats a Bad Rx for Care | Cato Institute

Bureaucrats a Bad Rx for Care | Cato Institute: "The regulators believed that such standardization would lead to more accurate processing of Medicare claims.

Instead it made doctors and hospitals wedge their patients and services into predetermined, ill-fitting categories."



"CMS instituted protocols based on statistically generalized — rather than individualized — outcomes in large population groups.



It is easy to standardize treatment protocols. It is impossible to standardize individual patients."

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