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Medicare Pays $50,000 for Heart Attacks but Pennies for Prevention
Original: Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
A MedPage Today opinion piece argues that US healthcare reimbursement is skewed against prevention: Medicare will readily pay tens of thousands of dollars to treat a heart attack, yet invests little in low-cost measures that could stop one from happening. The author calls for rebalancing payments toward preventive care, a critique of fee-for-service incentives that many clinicians echo.
Why now: It taps into a long-running debate over US healthcare paying for treatment rather than prevention.
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