EXACTLY what I said to my wife 2 years ago. There should be ONE payment per year per person. You be my doc for the year you get paid the whole thing. You weasel out somewhere you lose and someone else gets your money instead....
ONLY THEN will you see the real costs of health care drop. Til they come up with some other way to charge $5k for a tylenol or $200 for a 5 minute office visit.
"Specifically, the governor is expected to accelerate the adoption of a move toward global payments, where doctors and health care providers are not paid set amounts for each office visit, scan or test, but rather a lump sum for taking care of all of a patient’s medical needs in a given year."