McCain and Obama Agree: Medicare Needs New System for Doctor Pay

Posted by Jacob Goldstein in the Wall Street Journal Health blog McCain and Obama have big differences about how America’s health insurance market should work (duh). But their views converge when it comes to the way Medicare pays doctors — and their advisers have suggested both would shift the system away from the current model, which gives doctors a financial incentive to do lots of high-end procedures, even if they’re not entirely necessary.