Cutting Health-Care Costs by Putting Doctors on a Budget

07-06-2009 • Time

What if you went to your doctor, suffering from congestive heart failure, and your doctor had been given a limited budget from your insurance company to treat you? If he were to go over cost, he would pay out of his own pocket. [comforting] If he spent less than the allotment — and you were satisfied with your treatment — he would keep some of the change.

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