The old aphorism is true, leopards don’t change their spots! For these three entities that oppose the new HHS price … More
Category: Medical Costs
Fallacy of the Discount: Why Price Transparency Matters
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/04/09/598794123/bill-of-the-month-a-tale-of-2-ct-scanners-one-richer-one-poorer “Hynden was shocked when he got the second CT scan in January, and the listed price was $8,897 — … More
Medicare Hypocrisy for All – Foundation for Economic Education
Gary M. Galles “Medicare is not even close to sustainable in its present form, much less to be leveraged to … More
Watch “Milton Friedman – Monopoly” on YouTube
The Healthcare industry, or medical-industrial complex, wears the armor of Government-sponsored protectionism; chinked together by pieces of the tax code, … More
Judge tosses CMS’ site-neutral pay policy | Modern Healthcare
Forum for Healthcare Freedom writes: When central planners interfere with markets, as happened in 1965 and which continues to this … More
Surprise Medical Bills: We Know the Cure…Few Are Using it
This whole issue of “surprise bills” is a symptom of a more pernicious economic disease which has been driving prices … More
Propaganda, Pandering, and Politics – AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
“It sounds so virtuous to insist that “healthcare is a right.” Thus, if you do not believe medical care should … More
How Medicare Ruined American Healthcare | Medpage Today
Regarding the King-Anderson bill, the forerunner of Medicare, touted by JFK which eventually was defeated in the Senate… “Edward Annis, … More
