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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et. back in 2003 — so we’ve known for over 16 years that in the U.S., higher-than-world-average health care spending is mostly about how services are priced, versus whether Americans use more healthcare.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in the U.S. most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services.

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