AHA blog: Article fails to recognize role rising costs, insurers play in health care spending
A recent Wall Street Journal article claiming some hospitals are asking health plans to pay more for care to offset mounting labor costs ignores the dramatic rise in inflation and hospital costs for labor, drugs, supplies and equipment, and fails to examine the role commercial health insurers and Medicare and Medicaid underpayments play in health care spending, writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack. READ MORE
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