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Can Health Care Reform Cut Health Costs?
7 hours ago ago from Mark Pine
Posted: December 11th, 2009 under Current Affairs , Health, Medicine, and Healthcare . A goal of health care reform is cutting costs by reducing unnecessary or ineffective medical treatment. This week JAMA , the AMA’s premier journal, published a cogent commentary on the problems in achieving this important objective. Victor R. Fuchs of the National Bureau of Economic Research makes several salient points about how difficult it is ...
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19 hours ago ago from EHR Bloggers
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8 hours ago ago from Health Care Repair
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11 hours ago ago from PopEater
National Business Group on Health and the VHA Foundation Looked Across Country to Identify Healthcare Leaders Creating Safer, More Transparent Environments for Patients WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A poor economy in a rural area might seem like overwhelming obstacles to creating a sophisticated culture of safety in a health care system that serves the largest aging population in the country, but leaders at Eastern Maine ...
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