Health Care Costs – Page 77 – Healthy Skeptic

Jun 23 2010

FiscalTimes

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A new study claims the costs of Medicaid’s long-term care services could cripple states’ already-fragile budgets.

Jun 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Hospitals aren’t sitting on their collective hands waiting for healthcare reform to take a bite out of their bottom lines.

Jun 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Many small businesses would like to keep their grandfathered status but can’t afford the premium increases. Benefits consulting firm Mercer LLC says increases are averaging about 10% in 2010

Jun 23 2010

Medical Innovation and the American Economy

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The Council for American Medical Innovation has released a report about the value of medical innovation to the United States' economy. Concern is expressed about maintaining a vigorous medical product…

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Jun 22 2010

Bloomberg

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Americans buying their own health insurance face an average 20 percent increase in premiums, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Jun 22 2010

PWC Report on Employer Health Costs

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PriceWaterhouseCooper has a Health Research Institute which periodically looks at medical cost trends. Consistent with other recent publications, PWC believes that costs are continuing to increase at a rate well…

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Jun 21 2010

Geographic Variation in Drug Expenses

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Medicare's Part D benefit covers most prescription drugs and has added significantly to the program's cost, although not as much as originally projected. Now that the program has been in…

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Jun 18 2010

ThomsonReuters on Saving Health Dollars

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It is an oft repeated claim that there are hundreds of billions of dollars of waste in the health system, which if limited or removed would greatly relieve financial pressure…

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Jun 17 2010

New York Times

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When Congress aims to reduce Medicare spending, lawmakers often rely on cutting the prices they pay doctors and hospitals – but a new study shows how that approach may have limited success

Jun 16 2010

TheFiscalTimes

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The number of people hospitalized or killed by serious heart attacks each year is down sharply, new studies show. But the cost of treating people hospitalized with heart disease is increasing.

Jun 15 2010

Thomson Reuters

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Thomson Reuters: A Path To Eliminating $3.6 Trillion In Wasteful Healthcare Spending

Jun 15 2010

Reuters

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Companies that offer employee health insurance expect another steep jump in medical costs next year, and more will ask workers to share a bigger chunk of the expense, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

Jun 15 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Medical costs will grow by an estimated 9% in 2011, down from 9.5% this year, says a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, though there’s plenty of uncertainty about what next year will hold

Jun 14 2010

Health Affairs

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Health Affairs: A more comprehensive and realistic projection suggests that the new reform law will raise the deficit by more than $500 billion during the first ten years and by nearly $1.5 trillion in the following decade.

Jun 14 2010

AP News

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Millions of cancer survivors have put off getting medical care because they couldn’t afford it, according to a new study

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