Here's the original New York Times version. 

"Value-based" is a corporate euphemism for gutting "unnecessary" services, unnecessary also being corporate jargon for services that working people, who are increasingly "demanding" care, should somehow do without.

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Claudia Chaufan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Sociology and Health Policy
Institute for Health & Aging
University of California San Francisco
Laurel Heights, Box 0646
San Francisco, CA 94143

http://profiles.ucsf.edu/claudia.chaufan

“War only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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From: Chaufan, Claudia
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:21 AM
To: Chaufan, Claudia
Subject: NYTimes: Industry Group to Back Results-Focused Care

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/business/28payment.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

The new coalition said it is committed to finding a way to change financial incentives, moving the bulk of payments to so-called “value-based” arrangements by 2020.


Claudia Chaufan
Associate Professor
University of California San Francisco
https://ucsf.academia.edu/ClaudiaChaufan

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