Kaiser Permanente’s Former Chairman Might Not Understand Why Healthcare Prices Are Different
September 30, 2014
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Kaiser Permanente’s Former Chairman Might Not Understand Why Healthcare Prices Are Different
Also published in Forbes Tue. September 30, 2014.
Consumer Reports has published an article demanding that we get “mad about the outrageous cost of health care.”
Hey, I’m all for that. The article goes through the usual list of suspects, e.g. $37.50 for a single Tylenol, having two or three MRI scans when one will do, et cetera. The article also asserts that “health care works nothing like other market transactions. As a consumer, you are a bystander to the real action…” I could not agree more. However, I was a taken aback by a statement from George Halvorson, the former Chairman of Kaiser Permanente…
