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Will Uncle Sam Be the Only Customer in Healthcare?
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The US is often called a free market health care system. But Medicare and Medicaid are the biggest insurers, and the government pays for about half of all healthcare. The private sector is getting the message, with some big players –like Humana—ignoring private customers altogether.
Are we on a one way train to single payer? Will innovation suffer? And if government pays all the bills, should it own all the hospitals, physician practices and drug companies, too?
In this episode of CareTalk, John and David share how they feel about the government being the main customer for…
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