{"id":9623,"date":"2018-02-21T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:59:10","slug":"more-skin-in-the-game-is-working-to-hold-down-overall-u-s-health-care-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9623","title":{"rendered":"More skin in the game is working to hold down overall U.S. health care spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\u2019 (CMS) team of actuaries and economists say, the effort to make patients better health care shoppers by increasing their out-of-pocket costs seems to be working. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2018\/02\/19\/are-hdhps-keeping-health-spending-in-check?ref=rss&amp;kw=Are%20HDHPs%20keeping%20health%20spending%20in%20check?&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20180220&amp;src=EMC-Email_editorial&amp;pt=Daily\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7924\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" 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>According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\u2019 (CMS) team of actuaries and economists say, the effort to make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623","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=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9624,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions\/9624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}