Obviously not drugging them for life. And unfortunately even that, that whole project got co opted by industry because what happened was industry got their fingers in it. And The quality metrics that doctors were going to have to report on to get that increased payment... was measured by how many of the patients in that doctor's practice were medicated on long term medication therapy. So a doctor instead of saying I reversed these 50 patients diabetes and now they are non diabetic, they would report that they had their patient panel on long term diabetes medication and they were compliant with it. (2:04:57–2:05:18)
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Asserts that quality metrics for increased doctor payments were based on patient medication compliance rather than health outcomes.
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