[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/are-administrative-costs-evil\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/are-administrative-costs-evil\/","headline":"Are Administrative Costs Evil?","name":"Are Administrative Costs Evil?","description":"Most health policy wonks do not seem to be bothered by bureaucracy in any field other than health care. For example, I almost never meet anyone who complains about high administrative costs in health care who makes the same complaint about education, where the problem is much more severe.\u00a0 When Congress passed President Obama\u2019s health care law, it definitely made things worse than they otherwise would have been by trying to regulate how much health...","datePublished":"2012-05-29","dateModified":"2014-06-18","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/author\/jgoodman\/#Person","name":"John C. Goodman, The Heartland Institute","url":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/author\/jgoodman\/","identifier":30,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/96781f40f2bc6ecd26b465d1df4206749efdacbad2ce861550dcbef04f793012?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/96781f40f2bc6ecd26b465d1df4206749efdacbad2ce861550dcbef04f793012?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Consumer Insurance Guide","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/consumer-insurance-guide-logo.png","url":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/consumer-insurance-guide-logo.png","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/iStock_000001166476XSmall1.jpg","url":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/iStock_000001166476XSmall1.jpg","height":327,"width":367},"url":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/are-administrative-costs-evil\/","about":["Health"],"wordCount":876,"keywords":["administration and overhead costs for healthcare","health insurance costs","what is medical loss ratio or MLR"]},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Health","item":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Are Administrative Costs Evil?","item":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/are-administrative-costs-evil\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]