What will drive medical costs down, improve care, and allow Medicare to continue in perpetuity? It isn't single-payer, necessarily; we need to start looking at the biggest expense areas: doctors & hospitals, where quantity is valued over quality. The Mayo Clinic delivers better care at 1/3 the cost of hospitals that deliver worse care. Here's how... |
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)