Little people also don't realize that a single payer system is the ONLY system that would allow little people (as an entire country) to negotiate
better health care prices.
In an article yesterday, the New York Times wrote about the NYS Department of Health's newest dataset, hospital billing charges for medical procedures: As part of an effort to
make health care pricing more transparent, the state is naming hospitals and listing their median charges and costs for 1,400 conditions and procedures from 2009 to 2011.
This is not yet happening in an unambiguous way, perhaps in part
because health care prices are rising to offset the benefits of health insurance.
I
think health care prices are inelastic, I could have raised it higher and made more profits for our shareholders, which is my primary duty.»
Fuse Brown's areas of research and expertise
include health care prices, medical billing, the Affordable Care Act, health care competition and regulation, surprise medical bills, consumer protections for patients, and genetic research and privacy.
Working families would get much needed relief from skyrocketing
health care prices by being able to choose between a public option and private for - profit insurance.
If you're used to North
American health care prices, you will be pleasantly surprised to find out just how inexpensive medical attention and prescriptions can be in Belize.
Some states are trying to make
health care prices available to the public by collecting receipts from those who pay the bills: Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.
«I think she's been tough about trying to find a way to create incentives for more pharma invention and also express concern
on health care prices,» Podesta said.
«Despite large variation
in health care prices, prevalence of high - deductible health plans and widespread interest in price transparency, we did not find evidence that offering price transparency to employees generated savings,» said Sunita Desai, a research fellow in health care policy at Harvard Medical School and lead author on the study.
«There is very little that we are able to point to that explains the variation, suggesting that the variations are not predictable and therefore a sign of huge inefficiency within
the health care pricing system.»
Health care prices, for example, have mostly been influenced by policies and regulations.