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Kaiser Health News and PBS Newshour: Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/30/2012 - 13:15


  1. We pay our doctors, hospitals and other medical providers in ways that reward doing more, rather than being efficient.
  2. We're growing older, sicker and fatter.
  3. We want new drugs, technologies, services and procedures.
  4. We get tax breaks on buying health insurance -- and the cost to patients of seeking care is often low.
  5. We don't have enough information to make decisions on which medical care is best for us.
  6. Our hospitals and other providers are increasingly gaining market share and are better able to demand higher prices.
  7. We have supply and demand problems, and legal issues that complicate efforts to slow spending.


Source: Kaiser Health News
Source URL: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/October/25/heal...



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