“I am often asked if the free market can work in health care. My quick reply is: That is the only thing that works. At least, it is the only thing that works well. Show me a health care market …
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Options Will Increase, Sky Will Not Fall, If ACA Ends
“For example, the AMA complains that hundreds of millions would be at risk of losing “coverage.” In fact, only a net 1.7 million people gained private coverageunder ACA, after subtracting the nearly 6 million who lost it, at a shocking …
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What You Need To Know About Medicare For All, Part I
A study by Charles Blahousat the Mercatus Center estimates that Medicare for all would cost $32.6 trillion over the next ten years. Other studies have been in the same ballpark and they imply that we would need a 25% payroll …
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Free Market Friday: Transparency the key to reducing health care costs – The Journal Record
“One can spend hours on the phone tracking down the billing department only to hear from a lamenting administrator that they can’t share the negotiated price until after the procedure is performed. Then, weeks after the episode of care is …
Pillars of the FMMA | Free Market Medical Association
1. PRICE PRICE is NOT a product. CARE is the product. Selling access to pricingis anti-free market. Discount brokers” who get paid by selling “savings” are not transparent. 2. VALUE VALUE is established when the buyer and seller agree on …
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Kroger and GoodRx Launch the Kroger Rx Savings Club to Redefine the Customer Experience
The market is rising up in response to the price-distortions of the medical-industrial complex. The Kroger-GoodRx partnership is a huge end-run around the price-skimming cabal of PBMs and their Health Plan co-conspirators. – Robert Nelson, FfHCF “More than 200 million …
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Healthcare costs…time to rethink the calculus!
For anyone still laboring under the myth that insurance carriers are motivated to hold down costs in healthcare OR that health insurance is expensive BECAUSE health-care is expensive OR that insurance helps PROTECT us from high billed charges, consider the …
Lies That Won’t Die: Health Insurance Costs and Healthcare – Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its …
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