Everyone has ideas about how to fix the healthcare system and P4P is one of the methods often brought up to provide better, more efficient and cost-productive healthcare. Discuss if/how pay-for-performance (P4P) would impact the following healthcare issues:

• Shortages of physicians in rural geographic areas.
• Increasing national expenditures for healthcare.
• Hospitals experiencing financial problems.
• U.S. experiencing some of the poorest health outcomes in the industrialized world.

Be sure to address the pros and cons. Give your opinion about whether P4P is the better way to address these issues using the text as a resource.

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