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Monday, October 07, 2013
Think Tank Advocates Demise of Specialty Medicine in United States
Citing
poor efficiency, high cost and equivalent outcomes without high tech
medical interventions, authors Shannon Brownlee, Joseph Colucci, and
Thom Walsh from the
New America Foundation (“Productivity and the Health Care Workforce,”
October 2013, see http://growth.newamerica.net/publications/policy/productivity_and_the_health_care_workforce) recommend no federal funding for additional graduate medical education
residencies. They also propose that fee-for-service healthcare models
should diminished or eliminated.