{"id":3804,"date":"2010-02-15T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T01:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2010-02-15T20:55:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T01:55:35","slug":"the-folly-of-government-reforming-healthcare-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3804\/the-folly-of-government-reforming-healthcare-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Folly of Government Reforming Healthcare Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, there is an article so good, it\u2019s almost an injustice to splice any part of it for fear a reader won\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/15\/why_washington_cant_reform_healthcare_97634.html \" target=\"_blank\">take the hyperlink and read the whole thing<\/a>. Thankfully, Freedom Line Blog readers aren\u2019t those types, but just to whet the appetite, here is a sample from an op-ed dissecting why government can never \u201creform\u201d healthcare pricing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Healthcare prices are fake, inflexible, and inflated because they are set not by the repeated interactions of buyers and sellers but by opaque acts of collusion between government bureaucrats and special interests. Even if this system were run by a benevolent genius who happened to set prices exactly &#8220;right&#8221; &#8211; whatever that means &#8211; these prices would be obsolete the moment they were published.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t know the author, Bill Frezza, but I wish I did. A hat tip to you, Sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, there is an article so good, it\u2019s almost an injustice to splice any part of it for fear a reader won\u2019t take the hyperlink and read the whole thing. Thankfully, Freedom Line Blog readers aren\u2019t those types, but just to whet the appetite, here is a sample from an op-ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[861,862,863],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-healthcare","tag-market","tag-pricing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}