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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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“Medical homes”: good idea, or politicized boondoggle?

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

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 … Continue reading →

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Fee-for-service and medical quality

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Michael Cannon speaks on how the fee-for-service method of paying for medical care provides poor incentives for medical quality.  As he writes here, Rather than allow a level playing field for all payment systems, so that competition forces them all … Continue reading →

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