We must harmonize, or at least deconflict, how health care organizations are paid and how health care benefits are structured. While there are no perfect models for paying for care, there are models that can minimize the potential for harm and perverse incentives.
This year has undeniably changed the way we do things: the way we stay connected to our friends and family, the way we interact with our patients, the way we stand up for one another.
The tragedy we see now in India is of a different scale: it is multiplied many fold and affects the entire world.
Overall trust in the health system may be fractured, Americans’ trust and confidence in their doctors, even before the pandemic, ranked higher than the trust individuals place in leaders in business, government, and the media.
JAMA published an editorial and six articles this week about trust and health care—the centerpiece of the ABIM Foundation’s work to improve American health care.
