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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Fixing Medical Prices explores the activities of a largely unknown but highly powerful committee affiliated with the American Medical Association (AMA) that advises Medicare on the relative value of different medical services. Unwittingly or not, its recommendations set off a chain reaction that impacts all Americans. Medicare follows most of its fee recommendations, which are modeled by private insurers and federal and state programs. The book adds...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 115-849
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated -- and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value. Dr. H. Gilbert Welch is worried about too much medical care. It's not to deny that some people get too little medical care, rather that the conventional concern about "too little"...
Author
Series
Report / 113th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 113-645
Publisher
[U. S. Government Printing Office]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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