It’s the 70’s All Over Again: Hospital Rate Controls Make a Comeback! By Jeff Goldsmith
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Disco, Jimmy Carter, polyester leisure suits, soaring gas prices- older folks have lots of fond memories from the 1970’s. And yet a relic from 1970’s health policy- public utility style hospital rate setting- is having a moment in the mid-2020’s. Led by a coalition of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, policy entrepreneurs at Arnold Ventures, Obama-era technocrats like Zeke Emanuel and, believe it or not, some state hospital associations, hospital rate setting is staging a comeback.
It’s the 70’s All Over Again: Hospital Rate Controls Make a Comeback! By Jeff Goldsmith
It’s the 70’s All Over Again: Hospital Rate…
It’s the 70’s All Over Again: Hospital Rate Controls Make a Comeback! By Jeff Goldsmith
Disco, Jimmy Carter, polyester leisure suits, soaring gas prices- older folks have lots of fond memories from the 1970’s. And yet a relic from 1970’s health policy- public utility style hospital rate setting- is having a moment in the mid-2020’s. Led by a coalition of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, policy entrepreneurs at Arnold Ventures, Obama-era technocrats like Zeke Emanuel and, believe it or not, some state hospital associations, hospital rate setting is staging a comeback.