Can healthcare become equitable when physician compensation is anything but?
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The Drug Enforcement Administration has a database that tracks the path of every single pain pill sold in the United States, as it moves from manufacturer and distributor to pharmacy across every town and city. Now it has been made public for the first time.
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“An investigation by the Wall Street Journal revealed that U.S. health insurers who manage Medicare's Part D drug plans pocketed an extra $9.1B from 2006 - 2015 by overestimating their costs for the programs.”
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"It's the prices, stupid."
/Heavy users of healthcare are sometimes referred to as the “frequent fliers” of the industry. But the similarity between healthcare and airfare has more to do with pricing than consumer behavior: think airports and hospitals, where sandwiches and bandaids always cost more than you think they should. This 2018 overview by the NYT summarizes multiple studies pointing to the role pricing plays in the U.S.’ out of control cost curve.