Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Lower the Cost of Health Care ... by Taxing Hospitals? 

Filed As:  Health Care

There's a proposal in Wisconsin to address the problem of cost-shifting. When hospitals are lowballed by Medicaid, they raise prices to everyone else, which makes health care more expensive for people who already have insurance. So Wisconsin is going to make health care cheaper for those folks by ... taxing hospitals more.

What?

The Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal reports. Here's a hint: it involves using accounting tricks to get more money out of the federal government.

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