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powerhawk2000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
cost of litigation and defensive medicine increases health care spending by 10 percent.
powerhawk2000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Institute study estimated that poor health care quality accounts for 30 percent of all direct health care spending as a result of overuse, misuse and waste. Another study estimated that the direct
powerhawk2000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
at an annual rate of 7.3 percent, while the cost of health care services grew at an annual rate of 7.2 percent. Poor quality health care and litigation also increase health care costs. A 2002 Juran
powerhawk2000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
According to PriceWaterhouseCoopers' analysis, Factors Fueling Rising Health care Costs 2006:
Premium increases closely follow health care spending increases over time. From 1993-2003, premiums grew
powerhawk2000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@Chris6134 Myth: Health care costs in the United States, already high, continue to increase because of rising health care premiums
Fact: It is actually the other way around. Health care premiums are increasing because they are responding to the rising costs associated with providing health care services.
Chris6134 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Repost footstomp1:
"Socialized failure dissecting health-care data from Britain, Canada, and elsewhere the health-care systems of all developed countries face three unrelenting problems: rising costs, inadequate quality, and incomplete access to care. A slew of recent articles, published mainly in medical journals, suggest that the health-care systems of other countries are superior to ours on all these fronts.
Yet the articles are at odds with a substantial economic literature."
Chris6134 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@powerhawk2000 Exactly and good post !
"NHS like in the UK = Sucks dick whiohch is why liberals like it becuse they like their tiny dicks suck"
phoenixbornagain (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@AnAmericanSon @CherB313 @USSJ3 @matfrue44 Obama is working out great for you, if you're the sort of person who needs to lose weight, but needs to experience an actual famine to do so. Otherwise, you're pretty much screwed.
Higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in nearly four decades drove wholesale prices up last month by the most in nearly two years. Excluding those categories, inflation was tame.
BasilFawlty4444 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"The eyes of the world are turning to Great Britain. We now have the moral leadership of the world, and before many years are over we shall have people coming here as to a modern Mecca, learning from us in the twentieth century as they learned from us in the seventeenth."
~Aneurin Bevan, architect of the NHS |
