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Chicago — A panel appointed by President Bush that met here in June appears set to endorse some form of societal obligation to provide health care access to all.

The meeting was part of the President’s Council on Bioethics initiative examining the ethical underpinnings of approaches to reforming the nation’s health system and covering the estimated 47 million uninsured Americans. A report is likely to be issued after the November election.

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The idea of paying physicians more for providing guideline-based care has taken the American health system by storm in the last decade. Today, more than 150 pay-for-performance programs are centered on the notion that rewarding evidence-based care is key to improving health care quality.

But research shows there is a fundamental problem with the P4P programs: They have had little to no impact on quality. That is the conclusion of many studies, including a new analysis of quality incentives, published in the July/August Health Affairs. It compared 81 Massachusetts physician groups eligible for quality incentives with 73 that were not.

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