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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Health Care

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
Daily Caller | Let the IRS implement Obamacare? Are we nuts?
Revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for discriminatory treatment, and leaked confidential information about those groups to a left-wing outfit, ProPublica, should make us think twice about the White House’s plans to give the IRS even more authority — over our medicine cabinets.
NBER | The Spillover Effects of Medicare Managed Care: Medicare Advantage and Hospital Utilization
More than a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, which was created in large part to improve the efficiency of health care delivery by promoting competition among private managed care plans.