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• Voluntary cost control: Whats old is new again

  posted to The Incidental Economist (Posts) on Wed 9th Nov 11

  Not surprisingly, a group of hospitals and insurers in Massachusetts want to control health care costs themselves rather than be subject to whatever scheme might be imposed on them by the state.WhiteCoatNotesblogger and Globe reporterLiz Kowalczyk has the story:The

• Health care cost control is hard, and humbling

  posted to The Incidental Economist (Posts) on Sun 7th Nov 10

  The following is the text of 3 November 2010Kaiser Health News column.Let’s be honest. We really don’t know what’s going to control health care costs, long term. Today’s politically winning idea could be tomorrow’s platter of humble

• More Medicare history lessons

  posted to The Incidental Economist (Posts) on Mon 13th Sep 10

  The following is from Rick Mayes 2007 article on the development of Medicare’s hospital prospective payment system.Ronald Reagan … won a landslide victory over the Democrat incumbent, Jimmy Carter, by, among other things, arguing for the expansion

• Medicare history lessons

  posted to The Incidental Economist (Posts) on Mon 6th Sep 10

  Rick Mayes has written some outstanding papers, and a book, on Medicare payment policy history. At the end of this post is a complete list of such papers by him, lifted from his CV, all of which I’ve read. I’ve read his book too (Mayes kindly sent