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Contra Colorado Health Foundation: Fee-for-service medicine not the problem 0
- April 23, 2012
It is not fee-for-service that is the problem, but the burden third-party payers put on patients and providers alike, without adding any value whatsoever. Continue reading →
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Mass. health costs still soar, NY Times spreads fallacy about fee-for-service health care 0
- October 24, 2011
The fundamental problem in health care is not that we are using too much of one payment mechanism (e.g. fee-for-service) and too little of another. The problem is that the person who benefits from the service is not the same as the person who pays the bill. Continue reading →
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No surprise in Massachusetts: Central planning still fails 0
- December 27, 2010
The Dec. 11 Associated Press article about health care in Massachusetts illustrates why central economic planning will always fail. As Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek wrote: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
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“Medical homes”: good idea, or politicized boondoggle?0
- June 29, 2010
David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has written a nice critique of the so-called “medical homes” pushed by ObamaCare (HR 3590). A “medical home” sounds comforting, but if politicians are forcing you, or nudging you, into one with legislation, then you should be wary. A few excerpts from the article, Medical-Homes Model Pushed By Health […]
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