“…Although any payment system may be associated with adverse consequences, if designed and implemented appropriately, capitation for primary care has the potential to bring a number of benefits, including greater equity, incentives to increase primary care and prevention and to deliver services more efficiently, administrative simplicity and more predictable income for providers (Cashin, Borowitz, & Zuess, 2002;Goroll, Berenson, Schoenbaum, & Gardner, 2007;Langenbrunner et al, 2009;Tu et al, 2009). The results of the stakeholder interviews and quantitative data analysis, however, show that in fact none of these potential benefits of capitation are being realised (Table 4).…”