It looks like Barack Obama read Atul Gawande last week. Gawande's article in last week's New Yorker examining why healthcare is so expensive in the U.S. drew eurekas from hosts of readers. The main culprit, Gawande's exhaustive look at one of the country's most expensive healthcare markets suggests, is paying doctors by the procedure and thus creating financial incentives for prescribing expensive treatments. Gawande's Exhibit A is McAllen, Texas, where Medicare spends twice as much per capita as it does down the road apiece in El Paso. The reason seems to be that doctors in McAllen infected one another with an "entrepreneurial spirit":
Did Obama read Atul Gawande?
Did Obama read Atul Gawande?
Did Obama read Atul Gawande?
It looks like Barack Obama read Atul Gawande last week. Gawande's article in last week's New Yorker examining why healthcare is so expensive in the U.S. drew eurekas from hosts of readers. The main culprit, Gawande's exhaustive look at one of the country's most expensive healthcare markets suggests, is paying doctors by the procedure and thus creating financial incentives for prescribing expensive treatments. Gawande's Exhibit A is McAllen, Texas, where Medicare spends twice as much per capita as it does down the road apiece in El Paso. The reason seems to be that doctors in McAllen infected one another with an "entrepreneurial spirit":