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The $10 Blood Test…Now Only $10,000!

Even as something as routine as a blood test is subject to massive price fluctuations from hospital to hospital for no apparent reason. We still don’t understand how pricing works in our health care system.

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Newsflash: Price Transparency Works, Really

A new experiment shows that health care price transparency saves consumers money and reduces price variation.

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The U.S. Health Care System: The Global Sugar Daddy

A burgeoning controversy over an especially expensive new drug highlights how much the U.S. underwrites medical innovation for the whole world. Somehow, that never seems to make it into popular conversations about how inferior our system is.

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Hospitals Gain, U.S. Suffers

Hospitals are profiting big time from Obamacare, but simply dumping new patients into a dysfunctional system isn’t likely to solve the long-term problems plaguing U.S. health care.

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Easing Sticker Shock for Cash-Strapped Consumers

Middle-class incomes are stagnating while prices for many basic goods and services continue to rise. It’s time to think about how to make things cheaper, not just how to subsidize their expense.

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Study Confirms: US Health Care System Is Really Confusing

A new study changed the way doctors were paid, and it significantly lowered the overall cost of the treatment they offered—but the researchers can’t figure out how. Technocratic tinkering, it seems, isn’t very useful when it comes to reining in health care spending.

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Doctors Stop Offering Vaccines as Costs Skyrocket

Vaccines are now so expensive that doctors have stopped offering them to children, even while federal laws require children must be vaccinated before attending school. Corruption and rent-seeking pervade the story of how we got here.

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Obamacare’s Naive Bargain with Hospitals

The decision to expand health insurance before reigning in costs was an attempted quid pro quo deal with hospitals, according to Vox. How’s that going?

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Hospital Prices Skyrocket Past Inflation

Skyrocketing hospital prices highlight the source of American health care dysfunction: every year care gets more and more expensive.

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Workers Crushed as Companies Offload Health Costs

Obamacare seems largely irrelevant to Americans who get their insurance through their employer, yet health care costs are eating up greater shares of their paychecks. Unless we bring down costs, workers could soon be crushed.

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