“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion
The Health Care Blog
JANUARY 6, 2025
The authors ruled out the most obvious cost response–cost-shifting to workers by raising their deductibles or copayments–on the grounds that they found no changes in Health Savings Account enrollment in the sample during the five year study period. Remember the authors deliberately oversampled urban markets.
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