{"id":2250,"date":"2010-11-01T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/healthcare-pricing-bias\/"},"modified":"2010-11-01T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:34:35","slug":"healthcare-pricing-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/healthcare-pricing-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"healthcare pricing bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the author says, &#8220;It&#8217;s worse than that.&#8221; The &#8220;bias to always raise prices&#8221; on the part of Medicare price fixers, is shared by manufacturers, suppliers, providers, insurers, and legislators who all have interests in putting more money into the system. The beneficiaries&#8217; interests, the ones who ought to be providing demand input to the health care market to control pricing <em>and supply allocation <\/em>with their health care consumption free choices, are effectively muted. (<em>click panels below to enlarge<\/em>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/confessions-of-a-price-controller1.jpg\" title=\"Tax Relief Now\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/confessions-of-a-price-controller1.jpg\" alt=\"Tax Relief Now\" width=\"247\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/confessions-of-a-price-controller2.jpg\" title=\"Tax Relief Now\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/confessions-of-a-price-controller2.jpg\" alt=\"Tax Relief Now\" width=\"247\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the author says, &#8220;It&#8217;s worse than that.&#8221; The &#8220;bias to always raise prices&#8221; on the part of Medicare price fixers, is shared by manufacturers, suppliers, providers, insurers, and legislators who all have interests in putting more money into the system. The beneficiaries&#8217; interests, the ones who ought to be providing demand input to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economics","7":"category-health-care","8":"category-health-insurance","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}