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John Mafi

John Mafi

Sep 12, 2026

13:45
What do you think about those strategies as macro strategies to help improve value? Yeah, I think that...
13:52
In theory, they sound very good because you're in theory not incentivizing the doctors to order more tests and get paid more.
14:05
And so in theory, it should promote higher value care.
14:08
And there's some evidence that, say, Medicare Advantage HMOs.
14:11
do tend to deliver less low-value care than Medicare fee-for-service plans.
14:17
They sometimes have better health outcomes.
14:20
The problem with a lot of that literature is that there's this underlying selection bias.

6 MINS LATER

20:03
So my question to you is, do you think there's going to be a tipping point? And if so, what might it be?

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