{"id":889,"date":"2007-08-15T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2007-08-15T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T17:28:00","slug":"cost-control-for-dummies-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Cost Control for Dummies &#8211; WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpa.org\/sub\/dpd\/index.php?Article_ID=14895\">Summary from National Center for Policy Analysis<\/a> (as I don&#8217;t get the WSJ)<br \/>COST CONTROL FOR DUMMIES<br \/>[Source: Merrill Matthews, &#8220;Cost Control for Dummies,&#8221; Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2007.]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118714325206398102.html\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118714325206398102.html<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever the government controls prices, it arbitrarily determines who it will<br \/>pay, how much, and for what, explains Matthews. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Someone explain to me why this is seen as &#8220;arbitrary&#8221;? Are they tossing coins? As long as we can maintain an open debate about healthcare spending priorities, decisions will not be &#8220;arbitrary.&#8221; Though, I think , the definition of arbitrary for many, is that it didn&#8217;t go their way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary from National Center for Policy Analysis (as I don&#8217;t get the WSJ)COST CONTROL FOR DUMMIES[Source: Merrill Matthews, &#8220;Cost Control for Dummies,&#8221; Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2007.]http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118714325206398102.html Whenever the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cost Control for Dummies &#8211; WSJ&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-insurance-cost","category-single-payer-health-care"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}