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456. How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare

Freakonomics Radio

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Long Turn Care Hospitals - Is That a Mistake?

About fifteen per cent of the medi care budget is spent on post acute care. Long turn care hospitals are not really distinct from skilled nursing facilities. They're sort of an administrative construct which grew out of the way medica feefer service programme was built in the early eighties. It started at a small group of hospitals that were meant to be rehav facilities, but they were paid way more than any other post acute provider....

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