Many services provided to Americans are done so on cost tiers: We get what we pay for. A salad at Denny's for example, is going to be of lesser quality than the organic salad we're going to get (and pay for) at a fine dining bistro. Coffee is the same way (7-Eleven versus Starbucks); cars are the same way (Kia versus BMW); education is the same (Public versus private school). Now it looks like healthcare is going down the same route.

A Wall Street Journal article recently reported that "The Obama administration is working with Congress to mandate that all Medicare payments be tied to 'quality metrics.' However, as the article pointed out, "an analysis of t his drive for better healthcare reveals a fundamental flaw in how quality is defined and metrics applied. In too many cases, the quality measures have been hastily adopted, only to be proven wrong and even potentially dangerous to patients."

In other words, even Beamers can be lemons.

Luckily, AllMed, an independent review organization, works hard to make sure 'lemons' never pop up in the healthcare world. Rather than rely on medicine and best practices that aren't backed by evidence-based medicine, AllMed uses its database of doctors and physicians who are up to date with the very best practices in medicine.

Quality is our name; it should be yours, too.

To read the full Wall Street Journal article, click here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123914878625199185.html