{"id":186628,"date":"2013-12-03T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/03\/as-i-said-before-first-address-the-price-of-healthcare-and-then-address-the-cost\/"},"modified":"2013-12-03T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:07:00","slug":"as-i-said-before-first-address-the-price-of-healthcare-and-then-address-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/03\/as-i-said-before-first-address-the-price-of-healthcare-and-then-address-the-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"As I Said Before, First Address the Price of Healthcare, and Then Address the Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/03\/health\/as-hospital-costs-soar-single-stitch-tops-500.html\">$500.00 per stitch<\/a>?????<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of reasons, but mostly, because they <b>can<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>In the, &#8220;This is not a surprise,&#8221; category, we discover that mergers do not create economies of scale, but rather that they commit pricing power, which give us \u2026\u2026\u2026 $500.00 per stitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$500.00 per stitch????? There are a number of reasons, but mostly, because they can. In the, &#8220;This is not a surprise,&#8221; category, we discover that mergers do not create economies of scale, but rather that they commit pricing power, which give us \u2026\u2026\u2026 $500.00 per stitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1004,1046,1200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-healthcare","category-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}