A promising experiment aimed at reducing health care costs through changes to the payment system delivered underwhelming early results, but there's more to the story.
. In 2017, more than half of all insured American workers had health insurance with a deductible exceeding $1,000 thats almost twice as many as had such policies when Obamacare passed. But thats not all thats changed.
A team of researchers examined what happens when hundreds of thousands of people are given access to a website that provides prices for various medical procedures.
For decades, economists have questioned whether the earnings disparity stemmed from unequal pay within companies or unequal earnings from company to company.
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