Posted in Health Care on Jan 19th, 2011
Dr. Pardes writes today in the WSJ: The doctor shortage was fostered in 1996 when Congress capped the number of new doctors Medicare would pay to train, a practice that continues to this day. Teaching hospitals, which now make up about 10% of hospitals nationwide, depend on those Medicare funds to pay about two-thirds of […]
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Posted in Politics on Jan 19th, 2011
In the coming months we’ll be presenting here ideas for political reforms that satisfy three criteria. First, they improve the incentive structure for both taxpayers and policymakers/legislators/executive agencies over the current condition. Second, they move us closer to adhering to the Rule of Law. Third, they would seem to be non-partisan reforms in the sense […]
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