Not long after drinking the tea.

is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF the independent source for health policy research.imagine the heavy lift involved in overhauling the programs entire physician payment system.

theres general agreement that strengthening the primary care system through payment reform wont be accomplished by tinkering with billing codes.We need primary care to be paid differently and to be paid more.finances more than a fifth of all health care spending giving it significant muscle in the health care market.

The current fee-for-service system doesnt fully accommodate the time and effort primary care physicians put into small-ticket activities like emails and phone calls.they must repay the amount they received.

so what Medicare pays is crucial.

Health care shortages tend to be more acute in rural areas.Geneva Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian denied that his country was responsible for a drone attack in the Red Sea that appeared to be targeting a U.

But that is about all they agree on.was shot down early Wednesday morning by the USS Thomas Hudner as it was heading in the direction of the ship.

Yemen makes its own decisions and acts independently.The Pentagon did not say who it believes fired the drone.