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Atul Gawande | The Cost Conundrum: What McAllen, Texas Can Teach Us About Healthcare Costs
McAllen TX is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country. Only Miami-which has much higher labor and living costs-spends more per person on health care. In 2006, Medicare spent fifteen thousand dollars per enrollee here, almost twice the national average. The income per capita is twelve thousand dollars. In other words, Medicare spends three thousand dollars more per person here than the average person earns.
Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Healthcare Spending Growth
Full-text PDF, policy white paper from Brookings Institute
Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth - Brookings Institution
Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth
Health Reform in Massachusetts: An Update on Insurance Coverage and Support for Reform as of Fall 2008
Given the success of the coverage expansion, Massachusetts policymakers are turning to the next phase of health reform - reigning in health care costs.
Medical travel survey shows hospital prices vary up to $40,000 for same service
Flat prices for coronary artery bypass surgery ranged from $19,000 to $59,279, and for total hip replacement from $9,900 to $29,005.
How hospitalists can provide high quality patient care at the lowest possible cost. Bob Wachter, MD | KevinMD Blog, Sept 2009
Can health care organizations and physicians be incented to deliver the highest quality, safest, most reliable, most patient-centric care at the lowest possible cost without Atul Gawande reading the findings of the Dartmouth Atlas into the Congressional Record? I think they can, if they have a strong hospitalist program.
Why Paying for Health Care Reform Is Difficult and Essential — Numbers and Rules | Health Care Reform 2009
Why Paying for Health Care Reform Is Difficult and Essential — Numbers and Rules. In a short few paragraphs, Dr. Aaron elegantly simplifies and quantifies why finding the $1 trillion for universal coverage is so difficult. He concludes, realistically, soberly,
The Burden of Disease: The Economic Case for Investment in Quality Improvement and Medical Progress
United Bioscience's Center for Health Economics and Science Policy looks at 11 chronic and 2 acute conditions and quantifies the cost to the U.S. economy.
Trends In Underinsurance And The Affordability Of Employer Coverage, 2004-2007
The analysis concluded, "If you are sick and earn a modest income, then you are probably underinsured--even if you have employer-based health coverage." Middle-class Americans - those with incomes from $44,000 to $88,000 -- face mounting out-of-pocket costs that are eroding household disposable income available for food, shelter, and energy line items. While most of the uninsured are from lower-income families, 11 million of the uninsured live in middle class working families. Most of the growth of the uninsured between 2004 and 2007 -- 70% -- is in the middle class.
Health Affairs Blog | Aug 2009 | Moving From Volume-Driven Medicine Toward Accountable Care
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) represent a critical step away from volume-driven health care payment and toward better health and better care at lower cost.
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