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Medicare Turns Health-Care Prices Into a Guessing Game – WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-turns-health-care-prices-into-a-guessing-game-11558282907

advance-pricing, healthcare inflation, Healthcare prices, Jane Hughes, price transparency, WSJ

Watch “When You Don’t Understand The Hospital System. Chad Thornsberry” on YouTube

A humorous reminder of how crazy healthcare can seem to the outsiders who we call patients!

Analysis of the ACA: A Public Policy “Devil in the Details”

Individual Health Shrinkage Drives Up Uninsured Rate: CBO Data ~Enrollment in every other major type of coverage grew or held…

Allison Bell, CBO, CBO outlook on ObamaCare 2015, Health Insurance Subsidies, Individual Insurance Market, medicaid, Medicaid Expansion, ObamaCare subsidies, ThinkAdvisor

Another Whitewash of GPO Culpability in Soaring Costs and Shortages in the Drug Supply Chain?

Originally posted on IP4PI – Independent Physicians for Patient independence:
By Marion Mass, MD and Craig M. Wax, DO It appears the House Energy and Commerce…

How The Trump Administration Is Reforming Medicare | Health Affairs

“This 124-page document challenges a premise behind 50 years of thinking in health policy circles: that our most serious problems…

ACOs, Donald Trump, Health Affairs, Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, John C. Goodman, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare reform

America Doesn’t Need Pete Buttigieg’s Forced Labor Scheme – Reason.com

“What is freedom? It is the right to choose one’s own employment. Certainly it means that, if it means anything,”…

conscription, forced labor, Frederick Douglass, J.D. Tuccille, military draft, Reason.com, social cohesion

Sorry, Bernie Sanders, but Disney Doesn’t Have To Apologize for Making $1.3 Billion with Avengers: Endgame – Reason.com

“More importantly, if you care about improving the quality of life and living standards over time, the essential question is…

Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialism, Economic freedom, Economic Growth, government inefficiency, Income Inequality, Nick Gillespie, Reason.com, Size of government, Social Justice, Socialism

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…

Cost of Living, economics, Health insurance, healthcare costs, Ideas, Insurance Networks, price transparency, Surgery Center of Oklahoma, Transparent pricing

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