{"id":13779,"date":"2026-06-09T00:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13779"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:24:59","slug":"hhs-affordability-czar-says-healthcare-costs-stem-from-incentives-not-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13779","title":{"rendered":"HHS Affordability Czar Says Healthcare Costs Stem From Incentives, Not Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/hhs-affordability-healthcare-costs\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare affordability czar Casey Mulligan laid out the economic philosophy guiding the Trump administration\u2019s approach to healthcare costs during a recent conference address. He argued that provider taxes and state-directed payments inflate healthcare spending far beyond Medicaid and ultimately raise costs for employers and taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/hhs-affordability-healthcare-costs\/\">HHS Affordability Czar Says Healthcare Costs Stem From Incentives, Not Coverage<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare affordability czar Casey Mulligan laid out the economic philosophy guiding the Trump administration\u2019s approach to healthcare costs during a recent conference address. He argued that provider taxes and state-directed payments inflate healthcare spending far beyond Medicaid and ultimately raise costs for employers and taxpayers. The post HHS Affordability Czar Says Healthcare Costs Stem From&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}