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Politico | HHS releases prices for outpatient treatment
The Obama administration expanded its efforts to shine the light on hospital pricing Monday, making public charges for outpatient services from its vast trove of Medicare claims.
CNN Money | The Massachusetts (health care) experiment
The heated debate lost most of its steam. The Supreme Court has swatted back the big legal challenge. And November's presidential election has snuffed out opponents' hopes for an 11th-hour reversal.
Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | ObamaCare Is Raising Insurance Costs
California and Oregon have recently announced the premiums for the health plans that will be offered through their ObamaCare insurance exchanges in 2014. Supporters of the law are jubilant. KQED, northern California's largest public radio station, reported that "experts had warned of 'rate shock.' That has not happened."
WSJ | ObamaCare Bait and Switch
Liberals have spent years claiming that "rate shock" under the Affordable Care Act—the 20% to 30% average spike in insurance premiums that every independent analyst projects—is merely the political imagination of Republicans and the insurance industry.
