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Harvard Economist Offers Health Reform Solution: Says change must focus on cost containment

by Thomas R. Collins • June 9, 2010

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G. Paul Digoy, MD, director of pediatric otolaryngology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, said he’s always been in favor of change. “I feel we’ve got to do something different,” he said. “I know it’s going to hurt me financially, but he’s right.”

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Peter Koltai, MD, professor of otolaryngology at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., and a former president of the American Broncho-Esophagological Association, said it was “sad that our country is so damn polarized that we can’t move ahead in a way that will solve the problems that we truly have.”

Dr. Koltai said reform will have to affect reimbursement policies: “I’ve always thought that we’ve been overworked and overpaid, and we’re going to need to change both.”

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Filed Under: Articles, Health Policy, News Issue: June 2010

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