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The Aca, Provider Mergers And Hospital Pricing: Experimenting With Smart, Lower-Cost Health Insurance Options, Susan A. Channick
The Aca, Provider Mergers And Hospital Pricing: Experimenting With Smart, Lower-Cost Health Insurance Options, Susan A. Channick
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This paper addresses the issue of whether the recent significant uptick in provider mergers and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act have a particularly adverse effect on provider pricing in the commercial insurance market. Uncompetitive provider markets exacerbate already existing high cost issues such as lack of transparency in provider pricing, patient behavior that conflates reputation and quality, and payers’ inability, or at least reluctance, to exclude high-price providers from their networks. The ACA’s incentives for providers to coordinate patient care and hospitals’ revenue losses from reductions in Medicare reimbursement create further rationales for consolidation. The burden of finding …
Dietary Supplements Are Not All Safe And Not All Food: How The Low Cost Of Dietary Supplements Preys On The Consumer, Joanna K. Sax
Dietary Supplements Are Not All Safe And Not All Food: How The Low Cost Of Dietary Supplements Preys On The Consumer, Joanna K. Sax
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Dietary supplements are regulated as food, even though the safety and efficacy of some supplements are unknown. These products are often promoted as 'natural.' This leads many consumers to fail to question the supplements' safety, and some consumers even equate 'natural' with safe. But, 'natural' does not mean safe. For example, many wild berries and mushrooms are dangerous although they are natural. Another example is tobacco -- a key ingredient in cigarettes: it is natural, but overwhelming studies have established the harm of cigarette smoke. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only has limited ability to regulate the entry of …