Want to Control Health Care Spending? Focus on Doctors

This week, NHPR has focused on consumer driven health care, a new movement that gives patients a financial stake in deciding the treatments they get and the price they pay. The ultimate goal is to put the brakes on rising health care costs.

Over the past few days we've presented a variety of views and this evening, we hear from a skeptic. Dr. Elliot Fisher at the Dartmouth Medical School spoke with NHPR's Jon Greenberg. Fisher says if you want to control spending, the people to target are the doctors, not the patients.