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Competition Deniers Strike Again
The recent agreement in principle between Partners Healthcare (a hospital system in the Boston area) and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is a good example of how liberals view competition and go about enforcing the antitrust laws, which is to say they don’t enforce them at … Continue reading
Healthcare Pricing
A recent post at the blog Project Millennial outlines some of the issues relating to health-care as understood by liberals. According to the post, healthcare prices are a “total mess” because “list prices” vary immensely from provider to provider and the price … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged competition, health policy, healthcare costs, healthcare prices, price controls, Project Millennial
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Organizing Healthcare
The important question for healthcare, as is true for the economy as a whole, is how to organize and regulate healthcare. Generally, we can organize around competitive markets or through a system directed by a central authority. History proves that competition is the superior choice, … Continue reading
Catastrophic Care – Part Two
The previous post reviewed some of the problems about healthcare in America as iden-tified by David Goldhill in his recent book “Catastrophic Care.” So how does Goldhill pro-pose to fix healthcare and contain costs? First, he would require everyone to purchase health insurance, but … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged antitrust, Catastrophic Care, competition, David Goldhill, health accounts, healthcare costs, moral hazard
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Catastrophic Care – Part One
In his recent book “Catastrophic Care,” David Goldhill argues that the central problem with America’s healthcare system is the use of insurance to finance healthcare expen-ditures. According to Goldhill, insurance-based healthcare cannot control costs because consumers (i.e., patients) don’t directly pay for … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged antitrust, Catastrophic Care, competition, David Goldhill, healthcare costs, moral hazard
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Defragmenting Healthcare
Einer Elhauge, a healthcare expert at Harvard University, argues that we can lower healthcare costs and cut the deficit by “defragmenting” the system, by which he means replacing small group physician practices with large companies that combine hospitals and salaried physi-cians, similar to … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, healthcare costs, ObamaCare
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