Back to the future: the way forward in health care reform.

So much of what is happening in health care today is eerily similar to what was happening in the mid1990s. If that period were a movie, we would have called it Capitation, and this current feature would be called Return of Capitation. At the end of the first, the dead monster’s eyes would begin to glow again faintly, letting the audience know that a sequel would be a real possibility. Now he’s back, and he’s angry. Recently, I re-read a 1995 article about how family physicians should respond to changes in health care