no you missed the point of the article you posted!
rather than suggesting medicare price controls are a problem, it states they are the solution. it calls for them to be applied across the board.
it says that healthcare providers in high medicare dependent regions are far more cost effective than those in areas that deal with mostly private patients.
go back an re read your article. as what you're saying here is in complete contradiction to it.
They’re suggesting another intervention, more price controls, to rectify an initial failed intervention, price controls. I disagree with their conclusion.
The reality is that if you look at every American industry that has heavy government intervention you’ll find out of control prices. Education is a good example. With the recent advances in online and distance learning,prices should be plummeting but they still are outpacing inflation as they always have.
The aforementioned mentioned San Francisco is another example. It’s a heavily regulated and rent controlled market and the result is out of control housing prices and homelessness. The tech millionaires can afford a home but that’s it. It’s exactly the opposite of what liberals want: equality,