{"id":13953,"date":"2019-09-05T06:38:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13953"},"modified":"2019-09-05T06:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:38:06","slug":"analysis-how-your-beloved-hospital-helps-to-drive-up-health-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13953","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: How Your Beloved Hospital Helps To Drive Up Health Care Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elizabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>As voters fume about the high cost of health care, politicians have been targeting two well-deserved villains: pharmaceutical companies, whose prices have\u00a0risen more than inflation, and insurers, who pay their executives\u00a0millions\u00a0in salaries while raising premiums and deductibles.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Democratic presidential candidates have devoted copious airtime to debating health care, many of the country\u2019s leading health policy experts have wondered why they have given a total pass to arguably a primary culprit behind runaway medical inflation: America\u2019s hospitals.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/analysis-how-your-beloved-hospital-helps-to-drive-up-health-care-costs\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elizabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News) As voters fume about the high cost of health care, politicians have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-price-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13954,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions\/13954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}