In the debate about price vs utilization as the main driver of geographic variation in cost of care, I say don’t get distracted from innovation.

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I want to call your attention to a very thoughtful blog published by the semi-retired health care journalist, Merrill Goozner: the GoozNews Substack. Goozner’s most recent post, “It’s mostly overutilization, stupid” provides a delightful trip down memory lane, summarizing the decades-old debate about the causes of geographic variation in health care cost. Goozner started by

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