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Cost Shifting In Healthcare
One popular idea in healthcare policy has been that providers, such as hospitals, make up for low Medicare prices by charging more for the services they provide to private insurers. This is called cost shifting and hospitals and the insurance … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Austin Frakt, cost shifting, health policy, hospitals, Medicare
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Raising The Medicare Eligibility Age Would Not Increase Costs
In Medicare discussions, the suggestion arises from time to time that we could reduce federal spending by raising the Medicare eligibility age, for example, from 65 to 67. The popular liberal response (see e.g., this Kaiser Family Foundation report) is that raising Medicare’s eligibility age actually … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, health insurance, healthcare reform, Medicare
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Misrepresenting Medicare
Liberals seem to be reading from the same broken script with respect to Medicare costs. First, Ruth Marcus and Ezra Klein claim that Medicare costs are “lower than those of private insur-ers” (here and here) and now Matthew Yglesias claims that every dollar the federal govern-ment … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged budget, current events, fiscal cliff, healthcare, liberals, Medicare, ObamaCare
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Medicare Eligibility Age
It’s always bizarre to see liberals like Matthew Yglesias ignore the historical evidence and argue that central government, with its central planning and price controls, will do a better job at managing the economy than a system organized around markets and competition. … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, Matthew Yglesias, Medicare, ObamaCare, price controls, public option
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