--- title: "Commentary: It's more than just the price. | Sutter Health" description: "Though health care prices are distorted, simply fixing prices is not a sufficient solution to our health care problems." url: "https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications/commentary-its-more-than-just-the-price-1055312869" --- 1. [Home](https://www.sutterhealth.org/) / 2. [Research](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research) / 3. [Research publications](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications) / 4. Commentary: It's more than just the price. # Commentary: It's more than just the price. _Health Serv Res. 2020 Aug;55(4):496-499. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13317._ 2020-08-01 ## Abstract "First, Medicare seems to have done better than private insurers at constraining prices, and furthermore, other proposals addressing distortions in the Medicare fee schedule seem more promising. Second, looking at individual physician fees ignores what it actually takes to deliver care and will make impossible the competitive strategies Dowd and Laugesen propose. Third, adding some competitive features to health care may be helpful, but not necessarily in the realms they suggest." [PubMed abstract](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32700386/) ## Research topics - [Health Policy](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?query=%22%5C%22Health+Policy%5C%22%22) ## Related publications [View all publications](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research-search-results?verticalKey=research_publication) - Publication ### [Forces influencing generic drug development in the United States: a narrative review.](https://www.sutterhealth.org/research/publications/influences-generic-drug-developmt-us-1055312519) Lee CY, Chen X, Romanelli RJ, Segal JB. 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