Throwing Money at the Past

August 5, 2014

(New York Times) – The current physician training system, heavily subsidized by the federal government, has not produced doctors prepared to serve in a changing health care system and cannot account for billions of dollars in public funding each year, an exhaustive new report has concluded. Compiled by a nonpartisan committee of 21 leading physicians, economists, health care administrators, nurses, physician assistants and a consumer representative, and published under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine, the report describes a remarkable lack of accountability and oversight that may be affecting patient care.