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The more expensive it is, the better it must be. That’s how people used to think about healthcare costs. As has become apparent

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问题    The more expensive it is, the better it must be. That’s how people used to think about healthcare costs. As has become apparent in recent years, however, this is flat wrong. 【F1】The costs of care vary wildly depending on where you live—by three hundred per cent or more, as I reported in "The Cost Conundrum (难题)". And research has found no consistent relationship between cost and quality across the country. Some of the most expensive places are among the most mediocre.
   But nearly all this research was based on the analysis of government insurance programs, especially Medicare, the program for the elderly. Private insurers do not have to make information on whom they pay, how much, or what they pay for publicly available. Only government insurance programs do. A fascinating study out this week, however, manages to crack open the black box of private insurance. 【F2】It analyzes payment data compiled, for the first time, from three of the country’s largest commercial insurers which cover fourteen per cent of the U.S. population.
   Medicare can use its authority to set prices for hospitals. Private insurers can’t. They have to negotiate with individual hospitals. In general, they end up paying higher and far more variable prices than Medicare does. 【F3】There’s a big exception: Congress has prevented Medicare from setting drug prices—and as a result it often pays higher prices than other insurers do. That, the new research finds, can lead to a completely different cost picture for the privately insured.
   Differences in the number of tests and treatments given from place to place are still huge for the privately insured. 【F4】But the cost of health care is like the cost of groceries goods—the total depends on the price of every item and on how many items you get. Both Medicare and private insurers have adopted policies and reforms that are reducing unnecessary tests and treatments and improving preventive care.
   It’s the Cost Conundrum Squared. 【F5】The bigger the hospital, the more it can adopt systems that deliver better-organized, higher-quality, less-wasteful care;but the bigger the hospital, the more power it has to raise prices.
   We have a few ways out of the conundrum. We can regulate the prices hospitals charge insurers—this is what Maryland does. We can break up big hospitals. We can encourage hospitals to become the insurers. Or we can expand Medicare to more and more people until we’re single payer.
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答案医院越大，就越能采用结构更优、质量更高、浪费更少的医疗体系；但是，医院越大，提高各种价格的权力也就越大。
解析 ①此句是并列复合句，包含两个状语从句和一个定语从句。②两个分句均为the+比较级…，the+比较级的句型，后面的句子是主句。③分句1包含一个that引导的定语从句，修饰先行词systems，补充说明这个体系的特点，定语从句中的better-organized、higher-quality以及less-wasteful为三个并列的定语，修饰care；分句2句末的不定式结构修饰power，是对power作进一步的说明和解释，意为“提高价格的权力”。
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