Why are health care costs rising?Edward P. Djerejian
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"Health care costsare partly so high because they have been increasing rapidly," said Stuart Guterman, assistant vice president for the Commonwealth Fund's Program on Payment System Reform. "There's a long list of factors like technology and the organization of health care that doesn't promote...
One major problem is that physicians are often called upon to be the authority about financial matters for patients — even though they themselves aren’t always fully aware of the costs of certain care. Turner notes that as more physicians become employed by health systems, they...
Customers shopping on the Affordable Care Act's public insurance exchanges will see premium hikes of 20 percent or more in many markets, though those increases aren't just because of rising health care spending. The exchanges have seen wild price swings in part because insurers are still trying...
At the core of healthcare’s intractable grand challenges—rising costs, inequities in access, quality and outcomes, and the relentless pursuit of technological modernization alongside a workforce stretched to its limits—are a string of paradoxes. Solutions to these challenges remain elusive because we...
Most Americans want to do the responsible thing and insure themselves against catastrophic health care emergencies. But with health insurance costs rising every year, being responsible is becoming more difficult. I’m Lanhee Chen, researc...
Medical errors are reported to be the third cause of death in the US, just behind cancer and heart disease, the third cause of death. 01:41 footnote footnote I'm in health care for over 20 years now, and I witness every day how broken and how obsolete our hospital system is....
One reason for rising healthcare costs is government policy. Since the inception ofMedicarefor retired Americans andMedicaidfor low-income people, providers have been able to increase prices with the knowledge that the government, not the individual, will be paying the bills. Still, there’s much...
Annual U.S. Healthcare Costs Experts look at healthcare costs both in terms of NHE—which includes costs at every level—and federal-government health spending. Here’s how both are rising. National Health Costs and the GDP Healthcare payers, providers, and patients consider the mounting cost...