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Medical costs up again

Source: www.mercurynews.com
Frederic GoldsteinSeptember 26, 2007
Old News, Rising Medical Costs
Author: Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
Medical costs increasing at a rate greater than the annual rate of inflation have been a historical fact and should be expected until we get some fundamental changes in the way health care is delivered and managed in the United States.
Robert ForsterSeptember 25, 2007
Cost is high but quality is low--why the paradox?
Author: Robert Forster, MD, Healthcare Consultant, Robert Forster, MD
While cost per capita is the highest in the world, why is our quality substandard?--Health care status is not solely based on healthcare and rejection of accountability of American people remains prevelant. More money is NOT the answer to what ails us in health care.
September 24, 2007
Medical Costs Continue to Rise: It's Time to Face the Hard Facts
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Health care cost increases remain unabated because they are not being managed. Employers behave as though they have no control over health care cost management Consumers are largely blind to the true cost of health care until they lose their insurance. Physicians suffer from stagnant fees because the rest of the system eats up the cost
September 13, 2007
Turning and turning and back to ground zero
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
  The most ones who are  profiting from all this are the health  care institutions but there will be more restrictions on the service they will be providing to their patients and patients will be paying more co-pyments. Costs cannot be reduced but stabilized by increasing  supply more than the demand.  All is connected to  politics between Democrates...

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