Ron Holland: Inside the ‘fee-for-service’ health care system

 
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robert Ronald Holland, who is a physician and policy analyst who lives in Irasburg. He has no political party affiliation.
A dominant critique of the health care system is that its poor outcomes and high costs stem from a misalignment of economic incentives. The belief is that fee-for-service buys increments of care, therefore physicians sell more services than are necessary to increase their income. In the commentary by Carrie Wulfman, “On