Healthcare Economic Reform: How and Why Physicians Must Lead Change Within Our Evolving Healthcare Economy Action Orientation Blaine Warkentine

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Healthcare Economic Reform: How and Why Physicians Must Lead Change Within Our Evolving Healthcare Economy Action Orientation Blaine WarkentineBy Ellis Mac Knight MD, MBA Although the healthcare delivery system is as full of committed idealists as it ever was, the difference now is that the current healthcare system operates within an economically and politically driven milieu that prevents it from delivering what it is designed to provide: high value healthcare services for the patients it serves. The healthcare economy creates major problems with the dominant fee for service payment