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Mass. health costs still soar, NY Times spreads fallacy about fee-for-service health care

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

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

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

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.” Continue reading →

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Medicare’s “global budget” & bureaucratic medical decisions

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

From the Wall Street Journal: Democrats are quietly attempting to impose a “global budget” on Medicare, with radical implications for U.S. medicine. … If Democrats impose such a commission nationwide, it would constitute a radical change in U.S. health care. … Continue reading →

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