The Cost Cure
A practical reform agenda that could slow health care cost growth by hundreds of billions of dollars a year without cutting benefits, rationing care, or stifling innovation.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY RICHARD MIA
America’s health care crisis isn’t inevitable. It’s misdiagnosed.
Washington keeps arguing over who should pay the bill while ignoring what’s driving costs in the first place — a policy failure decades in the making.
By Ashish K. Jha
Hospital bills are
too high. Price caps are the answer.
$22,000 for a $11,000 surgery? No excuses—just market power. Cap the price.
By Ashish K. Jha
and Irene Papanicolas
End the policies that protect hospital monopolies
From payment distortions to certificate-of-need laws, government rules often reward consolidation and block new entrants. Reforming them would spur competition and lower costs.
By Ashish K. Jha
and Thomas C. Tsai
Competition and
health care: Bigger
isn’t always better
Bigger health systems promised efficiency. Instead, they delivered higher prices and fewer options for patients.
By Ashish K. Jha
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By Ashish K. Jha
Bigger health systems promised efficiency. Instead, they delivered higher prices and fewer options for patients.
Competition and
health care: Bigger
isn’t always better
Doctors should be paid to keep patients healthy
Value-based care works when physicians lead and take real accountability.
By Ashish K. Jha
and Thomas C. Tsai
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