HealthCare Notes

6/9/11

Medicare Privatization Will Increase Health Care Spending

Medicare Privatization Will Increase Health Care Spending: "pI’ve made this point before, but now courtesy of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities we get it in convenient chart form. Not only does privatizing Medicare push a larger share of health care costs onto patients, but because Medicare uses market power to bargain down unit prices total health care spending actually goes [...]/p"