CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today December 2, 2014
I think this will move it forward. If youre a patient, you care about your metric. Its wonderful were monitoring if doctors give quit smoking advice to patients. Im not a smoker so it doesnt matter to me. What you want to know is i know somebody whos about to have heart valve surgery. They want to know which doctor in their city performs the most heart valve cities and how many patients are alive a year after that. The fact we cannot answer that for that patient today or tomorrow or even next year, like, thats the question we want to answer. Its not like, do your diabetics have their a1c under...