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

Freakonomics Radio

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The Affordable Care Act - What's the Evidence for That?

Hospitals will be required to publish prices that reflect what people pay for services. Price transparencies led to about twenty seven per cent reduction in lamb test spending and thirteen per cent reduction in imaging, thomas phillipson says. Marty mc carey is the employer plans, health plans, who act as proxy shoppers for the rest of us. When i go to the grocery store, to be honest with you, stephen, i don't look at prices. But my mam does. She's looking at the price of a lemon at one store versus another, and shopping based on price, down to the enny....

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