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America spends twice as much on health as 10 other rich countries, due to the high cost of everything from prescriptions to doctors
By Jessica Glenza in N.Y. for TheGuardian.com, March 13
The United States spends twice as much on healthcare as 10 other high-income nations, driven by the high price of everything from prescription drugs to doctors’ salaries, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds.
Recent attempts to reform American healthcare have assigned blame for the high cost of care to nearly every sector – from drug companies to hospitals to health insurers.
However, a co-author of the new study said those arguments ignore the “800-pound gorilla”: sky-high prices everywhere [....]
Arta's input: But many WELL PAYING JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, and doctor-caused illness making more of them all the time! Therefore providing many poorly paying jobs, jobs, jobs as caretakers for chronically ill people....newsflash: insurers no longer enemy #1, as they actually try to control costs and overtreatment, though being a miserable failure at it, using lousy protocols, and thereby torturing patients the most knowledgeable patients....
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March 27 deadline for public comments as regards losing some very important patient rights under Medicare or Medicaid
Government, doctor or patient — whose health care preferences should be honored?
BY KIM CALLINAN AND KEVIN DÍAZ, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS @ TheHill.com, 03/20/18
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 5:15pm