Matt Yglesias notes that Rep. Ryan defended the breaking up of Medicare today by arguing against monopolies: Talking to Mario Bartiromo at today’s Fiscal Summit,
Jacob Hacker, the “godfather” of the public option, doesn’t like the Senate’s compromise as it would apply to those below 55 years old. It would
Leemore Dafny, with colleagues Mark Duggan and Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, has produced yet another fascinating paper on consolidation in the health insurance industry (I mentioned another
I keep coming back to this question: if a health insurer has considerable market power (even to the point of monopsony) will that translate to lower premiums
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