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DrumBeat: June 29, 2009

Posted on June 29, 2009

The Key to Fixing Health Care and Energy: Use LessOur health-care crisis and our energy crisis are complex dilemmas made of many complex problems. But our biggest problem in both health care and energy is essentially the same simple problem: we use too much. And in both cases, there's a simple explanation for much of the problem: our providers get paid more when we use more.Undoing these waste-promoting incentives the fee-for-service payment system that awards more fees to doctors and hospitals for providing more services, and the regulated electricity rates that reward utilities for sel...

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