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TECH: 19th Century Economics And 21st Century Medicare — Paying For Modern Diagnosis


April 19th, 2007
by Don Rucker

The annual debate on how to spend Medicare dollars is here again. We have many modern analytical tools to look at health care spending, but it may be worth going back to some basic insights of microeconomics. About 140 years ago, a group of economists showed that rational decision making meant looking at marginal cost... Read the rest of this entry »

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