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Today's Globe: mad-cow variant test, doctors and health costs
Public health officials in Massachusetts are investigating whether a patient in a Cape Cod hospital has an ailment similar to mad cow disease.
"Given doctors' power and their unique ability to squeeze out waste, the challenge is to put our healthcare dollars in their hands under conditions that verifiably let us trust them to spend it well," Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, directors of the Health Reform Program at the Boston University School of Public Health, write on the op-ed page. "Only by persuading doctors to be fiduciaries, not entrepreneurs, can we craft healthcare that is self-regulating, covers everyone, extirpates waste, and spends only what's affordable."
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