What will fix the cost of Healthcare

From Caroline Baum of Bloomberg:

"The challenge of saving Medicare from insolvency in 2024 would be easier if seniors had lived healthier lives. It would be a lot easier if the system corrected the perverse economic incentives that reward doctors for unnecessary procedures."

“Nothing changes until the people giving the care change the care,” says Don Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2010 to 2011. That requires “redesigning the way care is given into an integrated system, with primary care as the base.”

Of course, neither political party wants to conduct the debate at this level because pallative care smacks of Dr's playing God to some people.  Of course the people who say this, want every treatment for their loved ones regardless of the probability of success or the short length of any success.