Quoth Bro. Stern: " . . . Here are the specific steps we can take to swiftly bring down costs:
Improve the nation's health and well being;
<<< drivel
Incentivize better patient care outcomes;
<<< this is a specific step? Who? How?
Encourage the advancement of medical treatments, approaches, and science;
<<< we've already got that, fueled by huge dough; less dough threatens less innovation
Streamline administration;
<<< in a multi-payer system? With new "incentives" and encouragement of 'efficient care delivery yadda yadda yadda'?
and Encourage efficient care delivery based on evidence and be st practices.
<<< in other words, create the potential for a patient to be denied some kind of care Because it fails some mechanical test of "evidence and best practices"
<<< color me skeptical. And I'm starting to think A. Stern is a public menace.