{"id":3913,"date":"2016-08-12T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2016-08-12T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:32:31","slug":"should-big-insurance-become-like-walmart-to-lower-health-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3913","title":{"rendered":"Should Big Insurance Become Like Walmart To Lower Health Costs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Retail titan Walmart uses its market dominance to inflict \u201cruthless,\u201d \u201cbrutal\u201d and \u201crelentless\u201d pressure on prices charged by suppliers, business writers frequently report.<\/p>\n<p>What if huge health insurance companies could push down prices charged by hospitals and doctors in the same way? <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/should-big-insurance-become-like-walmart-to-lower-health-costs\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=32853072&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--JZeuPVcKL5n1_RXRgXIFhNlM9Y6K4ePGEldsZ-MGDJQG9HoM_4mmmkg0uvL9eXznvGLxTaY01niTIgEjbRMJtaB5fNg&amp;_hsmi=32853072\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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