Will using the power of the executive branch bring healthcare prices down? Recent events suggest otherwise.
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Raymond J. March | Thursday June 27, 2019 at 8:55 AM PDT
John R. Graham | Tuesday November 29, 2016 at 12:20 PM PST
Yale University professors Zach Cooper and Fiona Scott Morton have published a new article reporting their research on “surprise” medical bills. These occur when a patient goes to an in-network hospital but is treated (without his knowledge) by an out-of-network doctor and receives an unexpected bill from the doctor (or doctors). Examining 2.2 million...
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John R. Graham | Saturday December 26, 2015 at 8:15 AM PST
One of the least substantiated notions behind the modern American doctrine that people should allow insurers or governments to control our health spending is that these third parties can negotiate fees with hospitals and physicians that are better than those which would prevail if patients controlled these dollars ourselves. Years of evidence show that...
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