Another day, another -- What, out of my pocket!!

N.Y. Times headline: "Health Plan That Cuts Costs Raises Doctors' Ire"

-- When, as with the Whatcom County program, medical care is improved, and money saved, there are winners: in this case, insurers, including Medicare, which could save millions, and pharmaceutical companies. And there are losers: general practitioners and hospitals, with each doctor standing to lose at least $2,000 a year . . . .

The [Washington state] program, which is considered a model for how health care can be improved . . . , so far involves patients with just two diseases: diabetes and congestive heart failure. And though the organizers hoped to get doctors excited enough to make financial sacrifices to join, they were not entirely successful.