Sounds scary, eh? Back in the day when I was assigned for three or four years of my tenure in GAO to the subject of health care, I helped draft some revisions to portions of the Medicare law and worked with a team that made recommendations that led, in a different form, to Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs). Some of us at that time were pushing for something called capitation, and, lo and behold, the concept is being revived. Read about it in this piece appearing online today from The New Yorker, “A BIPARTISAN WAY TO IMPROVE MEDICAL CARE“.