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Can Health Care Reform Cut Health Costs?
14 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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11 hours ago ago from Health Business Blog
The subtitle of Atul Gawande's Testing, Testing article in the December 14 New Yorker is: The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing? In Gawande's view, the answer is: no, it's not a bad thing at all. Because: No one really knows which of the many cost control ideas out there will actually work so we can't just pick one and enact it There are lots of pilot programs in the bill, and from those we ...
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4 hours ago ago from Schools of Nursing
The following story was posted in AP News today. My question is if insurers don't want an Obama Healthcare System that is socialized and a far cry from the Best medical system in the world , then why are insurers content to send the insured overseas for and heart by-pass operations? I'm for Obama's plan and KEEPING AMERICAN JOBS HERE !!! (i.e. doctors, nurses and support staff). Screw the insurance companies as they have us for so long ! ...
Related contentMedicare Advantage squandering billions: MedCity Morning Read, Dec. 11, 2009 : MedCity News
18 hours ago ago from MedCity News
December 11, 2009 by Brandon Glenn Leave a Comment Highlights of the interesting and important from the world of health care: Squandering billions: Private insurers in the Medicare Advantage program are squandering billions each year on overhead expenses like marketing, executive bonuses and other corporate costs, according to House Democrats. The report comes as Democrats propose cutting nearly $120 billion over the next ...
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14 hours ago ago from Virginia Talks
Sen. Mark Warner has joined 10 colleagues in pushing an amendment to health care reform that would set up a system to let patients compare medical costs. It is an intriguing idea, but it doesn't go nearly far enough. What Travelocity and some of these sites did to airline fares, we hope to do with health care, he said. That got rid of the stuff in the market that doesn't work. It's good to know what something costs before you buy ...
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Leaders at Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems Overcome High Hurdles to Create a Superior 'Culture of Safety'
18 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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17 hours ago ago from PopEater
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Virginia Health Information (VHI) released its 2009 Industry Report: Virginia Hospitals and Nursing Facilities , which identifies the most efficient and productive hospitals, nursing facilities and other health care providers. The report contains important information for businesses and health care purchasers including data on providers' costs, profits and charity care. The 2009 Industry ...
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14 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Groups try simple steps to avoid hospital rebound WASHINGTON (AP) -- Talk about unnecessary misery: One in five Medicare patients winds up back in the hospital within a month - even worse, one in four patients with heart failure. A major push is under way around the country to cut rehospitalizations, in part by arming patients with simple steps to keep their recovery on track - like getting past harried receptionists for quicker follow-up ...
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17 hours ago ago from PopEater
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 16,000 women in Hawaii that appears in the December issue of the Ethnicity and Disease journal. The study also found that Korean-American and Chinese-American women's gestational diabetes risk is one-third higher than average - and more than ...
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