Health "Metrics": A New Way to Discriminate Against the Sick and Poor

[Half-Century Man]

5. Part of the "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure" thing.

From my personal experiences in Corporate America.
To gauge the effectiveness of something a measurement must be taken; that's common sense.
Those with an agenda usually try to control the "what to be measured" and "how to measure".
Agendas can be pro-common good, pro-exclusive good, or sometimes un-understandable without peyote.





One of the easiest ways to curtail the affects of metrics, as we are currently suffering through, is remove profit from the equation. Totally. Relating to the OP, this will greatly reduce the transfer of patients. Install some common good metrics like "ratio of difficult cases handled", "effective treatments on first visits" and "gaps in health care services resulting in patient movement to a different facility".