September 9, 2008 11:13AM 

# Perils of P4P 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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Sandeep Jauhar has an excellent [column](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/health/09essa.html) in yesterday’s *New York Times* on the challenges involved in paying doctors for quality, rather than quantity.

Though Dr. Jauhar stops short of recommending how to address those challenges, he strikes many of the same themes as [my P4P article](https://www.cato.org/pubs/papers/cannon_p4p.pdf) — only much more articulately and succinctly.

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