Cory Doctorow on Nostr: In the 1980s, Reagan's court sorcerers decreed that they could fix health care with ...
In the 1980s, Reagan's court sorcerers decreed that they could fix health care with something called "Prospective Payment Systems," which would pay hospitals a lump sum for treating conditions, rather than reimbursing them for each procedure, using competition and profit motives to drive "efficiency."
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