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“Can Taxes Help Address High Health Care Prices?”
So far, state policy makers concerned about high medical prices that may result from market power (or other causes) have focused on the use of regulations to force prices down. In this article, we argue that taxation provides another policy tool, and in some instances one more targeted at the harm of excessive prices for health care.
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