Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Price controls and medical care

This opinion in the WSJ states that access to medical care is better under private insurance than under government programs such as Medicaid. Here are some questions to consider.
  1. Why would "55% of doctors in major metropolitan areas refuse new Medicaid patients"?
  2. Why would "29% of Medicare beneficiaries who were looking for a primary-care doctor in 2008 already had a problem finding one"?
  3. Why would "patients with private insurance have better outcomes than similar patients on government insurance"?

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