{"id":34823,"date":"2009-10-29T09:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T13:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"d6598e29-889f-49f9-8657-ed23e8ef49ee"},"modified":"2009-10-29T09:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T13:44:15","slug":"iowa-medical-home-provides-lessons-for-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/34823","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Medical Home Provides Lessons For Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jeuQbQBHj_aFElVBxtdlwEsNX5kwD9BK865O0\" >The Associated Press<\/a> looks at what benefits medical homes may bring to health care by looking at one in Iowa: &#8220;A thousand miles from the health care debate in Washington, Dr. Don Klitgaard and his colleagues are carrying out their own reform in a small Iowa community.&#8221;\u00a0Policymakers, including\u00a0President Barack Obama, &#8220;have praised such experiments&#8221; as a way to achieve &#8220;better quality without costly complications. But change doesn&#8217;t come easy. In a traditional practice, the doctor is the center of universe. In the new model, he or she is part of a team. &#8230; Klitgaard is wondering if Congress will do enough for primary care doctors, the ones expected to carry out the transformation. Medicare, the government health program for seniors, doesn&#8217;t pay for the care coordination, monitoring, and coaching of patients that are part of his model&#8221; (Alonso-Zaldivar, 10\/28).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/YemcweBIGfw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press looks at what benefits medical homes may bring to health care by looking at one in Iowa: &#8220;A thousand miles from the health care debate in Washington, Dr. Don Klitgaard and his colleagues are carrying out their own reform in a small Iowa community.&#8221;\u00a0Policymakers, including\u00a0President Barack Obama, &#8220;have praised such experiments&#8221; as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}