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Category: Marketplace
Market Concentration Affects Cost-Shifts
Hospitals have been largely thought to shift costs among public and private payers to offset costs. New research reveals that the ability to conduct such cost-shifting is also related to the competitive nature of a hospital’s community. It is a Continue Reading …
Single-Payer’s Impact on Physician Income
“No boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.” Tommy Douglas, the father of Canadian medicare This study follows Continue Reading …
Trading Places
Americans are often pre-occupied worrying about people entering the United States across the Mexican border. Ever wonder if Mexicans worry about the nearly 2/3 of the border population that enters Mexico for health care? The 32 counties in Texas that Continue Reading …
Health insurance hampers entrepreneurship
Employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) is the most common type of health coverage for a majority of Americans. Fifty-nine percent of adults under 65 rely on ESHI; just about one half of all Americans (including the elderly and children) do the Continue Reading …
Price transparency for health care
The high cost of health insurance in the US has been a longstanding problem; some experts have argued that the answer to lowering health care costs involves creating a competitive market for consumers. The strategy is simple: drive health care Continue Reading …
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