Oligopoly and Regulatory Capture
This is what oligopoly and regulatory capture looks like:
Category: health policy
Health Insurance Russian Roulette
Half of the [United States] insured population uses virtually no health care at all. The 80th percentile uses only $3,000 [the 95th percentile has] only $11,487 in costs. It’s the 99th percentile, the people...
A Plague of Doctors
El Paso County, eight hundred miles up the border, has essentially the same demographics … Yet in 2006 Medicare expenditures … in El Paso were $7,504 per enrollee—half as much as in McAllen …...
Alms Enforcement
Buried on Page 31 of the [US Senate Finance Committee’s policy reform document] was a proposal to “Modify the Requirements for Tax-Exempt Hospitals,” which would require nonprofit hospitals to maintain minimal levels of charitable...
Sick Grade
The U.S. fell to last place among 19 industrialized nations on mortality amenable to health care—deaths that might have been prevented with timely and effective care. Although the U.S. rate improved by 4 percent...