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The US healthcare industry currently accounts for 17% of the economy, or more than $4 trillion in spending. Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect that state rules vary on the roles of ...
It started the industry’s arms race of acquisitions and vertical integration that has left us with the highly consolidated, even higher cost health care ecosystem we have today.
The debate about US healthcare concerns questions of access, efficiency, and quality purchased by the high sums spent. The WHO in 2000 ranked the US healthcare system first in responsiveness, but 37th in overall performance and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study).
CNN Health reports that if the U.S. is to maintain current patient-to-provider ratios and function effectively, the industry needs to recruit and train 17,000 additional primary care practitioners ...
The United States healthcare system is currently ranked dead last when compared to other high-income countries, according to a new report. The report — published Sept. 19 by independent research ...
A study published in August 2008 in Health Affairs found that covering all of the uninsured in the US would increase national spending on health care by $122.6 billion, which would represent a 5% increase in health care spending and 0.8% of GDP. "From society's perspective, covering the uninsured is still a good investment.
The National Health Care Surveys are used to study resource use, including staffing; quality of care, including patient safety; clinical management of specific conditions; disparities in the use and quality of care; and diffusion of health care technologies, including drugs, surgical procedures, and information technologies.
But few get to the real problem: health care is priced as a business, but we think of it as a social good. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in. Subscriptions; Business;