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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