A new study in the Journal of the AMA (JAMA) finds that 25% of the current $3.5 trillion spent by Americans on healthcare is wasted – dollars spent that don’t help achieve health or relieve disease. Fellow blogger Henry Kotula has summarized the findings, as re-posted below. Commentators on the JAMA article echo Fixing U.S. … Continue reading AMA Journal Blames Greed and Politics for Rising Healthcare Costs
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Genes, Cost-Effectiveness and Healthcare Reform – Dialog with Dr. Buchanan
This is a posting of my reply to British health economist Dr. Buchanan's Comment of February 17, 2018. The original posts are: Medicines's future? The health economics of population-wide genomic screening (October 26, 2017) Cost-Effectiveness: From Genes to Healthcare System Reform (December 17, 2017) 2 thoughts on “Cost-Effectiveness: From Genes to Healthcare System Reform” (Reply, February … Continue reading Genes, Cost-Effectiveness and Healthcare Reform – Dialog with Dr. Buchanan
FAQ: How Many Healthcare Dollars Are Wasted?
Between $700 billion and $1.1 trillion every year. This amounts to between 21% and 34% of the $3.3 trillion total healthcare spending for 2016. These figures are the estimates published in 25 authoritative studies done between 2003 and 2012. Donald Berwick MD, former head of Medicare, assembled these 25 studies for the RAND Corporation. Fixing … Continue reading FAQ: How Many Healthcare Dollars Are Wasted?
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