Contents tagged with health care costs
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America’s health care price tag: An inflationary tale
By Roland A. Goertz, M.D., M.B.A.
What is it that makes American health care so expensive compared to every other developed country? I am often asked that question, and giving an accurate or simple answer is difficult. Instead of a long list of items that underlie the problem, I will describe four well-intended processes that I believe have created an inherently inflationary model of care. We have all benefited from the creation of the four processes, but we now pay a huge price for maintaining them.
Health Insurance
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Feeling the health insurance squeeze
By Linda Siy, M.D.
TAFP President, 2007-2008We are inundated almost daily with tales of escalating health care costs, exploding health insurance premiums and horror stories from small businesses that have been forced to drop health insurance and families who have lost coverage.
Health care costs have long outpaced the rest of the economy. In 2008, health insurance premiums are projected to increase at more than twice the rate of inflation. Yet most employers simply accept this as a cost of doing business. But what are we getting in return for these exorbitant health insurance premiums?
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TAFP members connect family medicine with decreased health costs
TAFP members connect family medicine with decreased health costs
Decreasing the price tag on health care through preventive medicine has frequented news outlets as one solution to controlling … more
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What if auto insurance was run like health insurance?
By Stephen Benold, M.D.
Imagine that there are three entities in our parable: the filling station is the doctor’s office, the auto parts store is the pharmacy, and the garage or repair shop is the hospital.
The Filling Station
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