Image via WikipediaWhile Medicare is busy guarding the front door, to ensure that no cognitive or primary preventive care is ever billed as useful time, top-down price setting has allowed our “nationalized” system for seniors to pay up to almost 2X the going rate for durable medical goods.
As related in the NYTimes, Congress has been setting the price for goods, and lobbying efforts have ensured that price is significantly higher than can be found elsewhere on the free market.
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Posted by Vijay Goel, M.D. |
Categories: Uncategorized | Tagged: Health care, Health care in the United States, medicare | 
