Beware the Consequences of Government Setting Health Prices
Prescription drug spending in 2019 was less than 10 percent of the nation’s $3.8 trillion…
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Want Health Insurance? Biden Has Deals for You!
If you have no health insurance and are not yet eligible for Medicare, the federal…
Chapter 3: Employers Get to Work on Health Care
34 article: “How Employers Are Fixing Health Care,” Harvard Business Review, March, 2019, https://hbr.org/cover-story/2019/03/how-employers-are-fixing-health-care. 34 …
Chapter 10: What Quality Looks Like
148 a 2019 survey: 2019 Healthcare Consumer Insight & Digital Engagement Survey, Binary Fountain, September…
Chapter 11: Unneeded and Misdiagnosed Care
170 research found: “Surgery for Blocked Arteries Is Often Unwarranted, Researchers Find,” New York Times,…
Chapter 12: When You’re in Control, and When You’re Not
185 2017 research: “One in Five Inpatient Emergency Department Cases May Lead to Surprise Bills,”…
Chapter 6: Medicaid: A Program Everyone May Need
87 split about 60–40: “Medicaid Financing: The Basics,” Kaiser Family Foundation, https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-financing-the-basics/. 87 Nearly 70…
Chapter 5: Medicare Coverage, Costs, and Concerns
68 Medicare book: Philip Moeller, Get What’s Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your…
Chapter 13: Shopping for Health Care
207 controversial health insurance substitutes: “ ‘Sham’ Sharing Ministries Test Faith of Patients and Insurance Regulators,”…
Chapter 1: Game On
3 a story: “To Save Money, American Patients and Surgeons Meet in Cancun,” Kaiser Health…
