Policies such as certificate-of-need laws, payment differentials between care settings, restrictions on physician-owned hospitals, Medicaid financing gimmicks, and broad subsidies have driven hospital prices far above inflation, encouraged hospitals to acquire physician practices and merge into large health systems, and weakened consumer pressure on costs.
Source: John Graham, Paragon Institute
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