{"id":15267,"date":"2020-02-20T06:53:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T11:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15267"},"modified":"2020-02-20T06:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T11:53:18","slug":"how-the-psychology-of-a-4-99-price-tag-might-influence-who-undergoes-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15267","title":{"rendered":"How the psychology of a $4.99 price tag might influence who undergoes heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Eric Boodman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">H<\/span><\/span>ealth economists aren\u2019t generally known for their humor. There\u2019s something about Medicaid that\u2019s just deeply unfunny. Make a joke, and the punch line may well be deadly. As one quip goes: What do affordable health care and sarcasm have in common? Most Americans just don\u2019t get it.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/02\/19\/how-psychology-of-4-99-price-tag-might-influence-who-undergoes-heart-surgery\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Eric Boodman for STAT) Health economists aren\u2019t generally known for their humor. There\u2019s something about Medicaid that\u2019s just deeply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267","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=15267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15268,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions\/15268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}