Medicare's Role in Determining Prices Throughout the Health Care System

Roger Feldman, Bryan Dowd and Robert Coulam
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No 6828, Working Papers from George Mason University, Mercatus Center

Abstract: Prices set by fee-for-service Medicare have a direct effect on prices paid by private insurers throughout the health care system. While this link is widely recognized, there is disagreement about whether higher Medicare prices lead to lower or higher pric

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Date: 2015-10-08
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