The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Thomas Rice, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health distinguished professor of health policy and management, for a column on the cost savings to the U.S. of adding dental coverage to Medicare
The $4-trillion U.S. healthcare system is so vast and so complex, any discussion of changing things can (and will) get quickly bogged down in hard-to-address policy details.
So let’s focus on just one aspect of healthcare reform: reimbursing medical providers for the treatment they deliver.
Put more succinctly: How much is enough?