By Mark Mix
Home day care providers would be forced into unions
Don't call today's young doctors slackers.
"Premium support" is at the heart of GOP efforts to modernize Medicare before it evaporates, as soon as 2020. Democrats have mutilated this excellent idea, which also bears a dreadful name. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, and his colleagues should relaunch this concept, pronto.
"It's a fortunate accident," said economist and health policy expert Robert Reischauer. "The two will reinforce each other."
"For the first time, providers are beginning to ask how much their recommended interventions cost and whether there isn't a way to reduce those costs," said Robert Reischauer, former director of the Congressional Budget Office. "Younger physicians are more tech savvy and more interested in a balanced work-family life and more willing to work in teams. So there is lots going on that quite frankly never happened in a convincing way before."
