Tom Murray, president of The Hastings Center, discussed how and why health reform should reflect our values in an interview on NPR’s Science Friday.

Let’s get even more pragmatic about our values and talk about accountability.

It is a business truism that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Our healthcare system is incredibly adept at measuring revenue, procedures performed, and patients moved out the door. In our current system, physicians and facilities get tangible rewards for managing these measures efficiently. However, research such as the Dartmouth Atlas illustrates that more of these things—payments, procedures, and patient throughput—aren’t yielding better health outcomes…