New Md. health care delivery system will prioritize wellness ["when the dust settles......"]

Baltimore Sun ^ | January 11, 2014 | Gov Martin O'Malley

[RFEngineer]

“and other alternative approaches to payment that reward clinical systems of care for providing improved outcomes at lower costs. “

So basically, there is more money to be made treating healthy people than trying to treat those who are the most sick.

[Elsie]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Have you noticed lately how many articles describe all the procedures we’ve always been told to have done by such and such age — that now they aren’t needed, or can wait or were never needed at all?

Sounds to me like the cost cutting has already begun.

[VeniVidiVici]

Death panels come to life

[ogen hal]

Escape maryland before they murder you. That’s a great state motto.

[GeronL]

We will limit the growth in hospital spending per capita, including inpatient and outpatient care, to the rate of growth in the state's economy.

and if the economy crashes as a million move in, you get aspirins for cancer?

[grania]

This is what I've said all along. Control of medical care will shift to an emphasis on public health, not individual situations. Flu shots, vaccinations, diabetes maintenance, mental health checks....no problem. What's not going to work out so well is when someone gets a disease out of the norm.

There was something in the local news a few weeks ago about how some doctors are trying out having annual physicals be group events....a group of people go through testings, screenings, discussions about health together, like a classroom. Yuck!

[Jim Noble]

New Md. health care delivery system will prioritize wellness

Translation: Don't get sick.