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Medicare Experiment Fails to Save Money
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An ambitious three-year experiment to see whether the Medicare system could prevent expensive hospital visits for people with chronic conditions like congestive heart failure and diabetes has suggested that such an approach may cost more than it saves. (New York Times [1], Monday)
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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/business/07medicare.html?_r=1amp;hpamp;oref=slogin
[2] Free-Market Medicine: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4305
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