114th Congress

Last week, the president-elect traveled to a Carrier furnace plant in Indiana to announce that he had made good on his promise to bring 1,400 Carrier jobs back to the United States. In fact, however, 600 jobs at that factory will still move to Mexico, and another factory of that company still intends to close.

For nearly two decades, Medicare paid physicians based on volume rather than the, quality of services they provided. While others in health care were experimenting with ways to reward better care for patients, Medicare was locked into an outdated payment model known as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR).