Perhaps the most well-known part of the 1965 Medicare creation tale is the opposition by the American Medical Association (AMA) to “socialized medicine.” Yet with financial incentives assuming a new prominence for provider and patient alike, we shouldn
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Sep 10 2015, 06:38 AM
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Filed under: Physicians, Medicare, Quality, Hospitals, Payment Policy, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, Affordable Care Act, Richard Nixon, socialized medicine, George H.W. Bush, Kenneth Arrow, American Medical Association