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Punishing the Mayo Clinic financially for efficiently and effectively providing Medicare services is just one failing of our health-care system. Attempts to lower Medicare costs, even those now under consideration, focus on lower fees--a maneuver well known to increase the number of services, many unneeded, and actually increase total costs. Truly effective care can be delivered only by integrated, cohesive, properly incentivized, Mayo-like multispecialty medical groups with strong leadership and a commitment to quality. Unfortunately, legislation pending in Congress ignores this need. Charles V. Allen, M.D., MODESTO, CALIF...
...left out the elephant in the room: the patient. Most of what we do in health care now is treat diseases of lifestyle, including lack of exercise and unhealthy eating. We need more than mere reform; we need to restructure our priorities. Charles J. Huebner, M.D., PETOSKEY, MICH...
About 38% of adults now use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Any health-care debate should include the potential benefits of integrating evidence-based CAM into conventional medicine. Joel Christie, BELLEAIR BLUFFS...
This is the best time. When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. Entrepreneurs don't really care if the market's up or down. They're creating better products and better processes. So when somebody says, "Oh, there's less opportunity now," it's because they're losers...
...More people will be suffering.' DR. SEAN MACKEY, chief of pain management at the Stanford University School of Medicine, saying the agency's recommendation would burden physicians and patients and lead to higher health-care costs...