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Medicare auctions

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Comment On Hoerger: Early Pilots Of Medicare Auctions Brings No Solace To Auction Experts, Peter Cramton, Brett E. Katzman Jul 2011

Comment On Hoerger: Early Pilots Of Medicare Auctions Brings No Solace To Auction Experts, Peter Cramton, Brett E. Katzman

Faculty and Research Publications

Peter Cramton and Brett Katzman stick to their guns: Medicare auctions remain fatally flawed and must be fixed. They argue that contrary to Hoerger's comment, no comfort can be drawn from the fact that the market was able to withstand price reductions in early pilots.


Reducing Healthcare Costs Requires Good Market Design, Peter Cramton, Brett E. Katzman Oct 2010

Reducing Healthcare Costs Requires Good Market Design, Peter Cramton, Brett E. Katzman

Faculty and Research Publications

Healthcare costs are no doubt too high, and Congress has been pushing for 13 years to harness market forces in Medicare procurement. But despite all this time, we are on the precipice of adopting a very poor market design, according to Peter Cramton of University of Maryland and Brett Katzman of Kennesaw State University.