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	Podcast:		EconTalk Archives, 2008
	Episode:		Lipstein on Hospitals
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		01:05:17
	Publish Date:		2008-12-08 05:30:00
	Description:		Steven Lipstein, President and CEO of BJC HealthCare--a $3 billion hospital system in St. Louis, Missouri--talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of hospitals. They discuss pricing, the advantages and disadvantages of specialization in modern medical care, and culture and governance of non-profit hospitals vs. for-profit hospitals. At the end they talk about the positives and negatives of a national health board patterned after the Federal Reserve.
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