Many are attempts at cost-shifting to make up for flat or dropping Medicare and Medicaid payments.
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This also results in cost-shifting tens of billions of dollars a year over to private payers.
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But the fundamental market failure that Congress sought to fix was this cost-shifting from the uninsured to the privately insured.
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As this cost-shifting is exactly what the Health Care Reform Act was enacted to address, there is no need for metaphysical gymnastics.
This phenomenon of cost-shifting is what makes the health care market unique.
Carvin exposes the cost-shifting argument for the mandate.
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Austin Frakt of The Incidental Economist has a series of posts up exploring the cost-shifting question: whether or not the fact that Medicare and Medicaid underpay doctors and hospitals leads providers to overcharge those with private insurance.
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Rather than helping small businesses with common-sense solutions to make health care more affordable, the Democrats' bill actually creates a climate that destroys jobs and does nothing to slow the cost-shifting to businesses and employees that is one of the fundamental problems with health care in our country today.
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One of the issues that -- points we made in the previous iterations was that one of the reasons why such drastic and dramatic cost-shifting and cuts were imposed upon seniors was in order to funnel money for tax cuts to wealthy Americans, which we thought was not a fair tradeoff.
The cost-shifting trend is expected to continue as employers wrestle with the uncertainty that lies ahead with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which will expand health benefits to millions of uninsured Americans via an expanded Medicaid program for the poor or through online exchanges where uninsured will buy government-subsidized private coverage.
The insurance company helps by creating a provider panel with good value for cost and shifting away the high-end risk.
The agency noted, however, that Toshiba and Sony are benefiting from recent cost-cutting measures, including the shifting of production capacities to countries with cheap labor.
As a result, sweet makers are shifting plants to lower-cost areas.
In the same period of that year, the cost of cutting jobs and shifting its spending patterns - and the decision to merge its handset business with that of electronics giant Sony - meant it lost 2.1bn kronor before tax.
Almost 20% of global electricity consumption comes from lighting, so shifting lighting to LED technology is a cost-effective way to get change at scale.
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But while it has so far relied on a low-cost manufacturing strategy for its success, it is shifting gears as a restless work force and the results of its one-child policy threaten its manufacturing advantage.
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Shifting middle-class responsibilities to government both increases their cost and burdens the most productive.
Shifting away from the growth-at-any-cost model that has prevailed over the past three decades, he promised more efforts on redressing the inequality and social tension that market reforms have engendered.
What the Boston Consulting Group calls a "reallocation of global manufacturing" is shifting production away from expensive East Asia and Europe and toward these lower-cost locales.
Defined contribution retirement plans, in addition to shifting responsibility for investment decision-making onto workers, almost always force workers into higher cost, poorer performing retail oriented investment options.
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Organizations are rapidly shifting away from hard to use, one-size-fits-all (at very high cost) enterprise software applications and large data centers.
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