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Medicare spends $9 billion a year paying for the medical residencies where doctors get their clinical training. That training needs to change as part of the nation’s big health-reform push, argued a report out yesterday from MedPAC , the commission that advises Congress on Medicare. The report looked broadly at health-system reform , touching on a number of issues we’ve been hearing a lot about lately — the way Medicare pays doctors for volume rather than quality, for example, and how private insurers in the Medicare Advantage program are paid more than traditional Medicare programs. But we haven’t heard so much about how medical education fits in — and we figured it was worth paying attention, given the talk in Washington of giving MedPAC new powers to implement its ideas. Specifically, the report cited
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Medicare spends $9 billion a year paying for the medical residencies where doctors get their clinical training. That training needs to change as part of the nation’s big health-reform push, argued a report out yesterday from MedPAC , the commission that advises Congress on Medicare. The report looked broadly at health-system reform , touching on a number of issues we’ve been hearing a lot about lately — the way Medicare pays doctors for volume rather than quality, for example, and how private insurers in the Medicare Advantage program are paid more than traditional Medicare programs. But we haven’t heard so much about how medical education fits in — and we figured it was worth paying attention, given the talk in Washington of giving MedPAC new powers to implement its ideas. Specifically, the report
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