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Costliest 1 percent of patients account for 21 percent of U.S. health spending
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Posted on 10/19/2013 10:37:13 AM PDT by Java4Jay

One percent consumed 21 percent of the nearly $1.3 trillion Americans spent on health care. Five percent of patients accounted for 50 percent of all health-care expenditures. By contrast, the bottom 50 percent of patients accounted for just 2.8 percent of spending.

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KEYWORDS: healthcare; obamacare; socializedmedicine
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Nearly all wind up in emergency rooms because they have enormous difficulty navigating the increasingly fragmented, complicated and inflexible health-care system. Because of lack of alternatives or force of habit, they use hospitals, often several in the same city, for care that could be provided far more cheaply and effectively in outpatient settings. Many suffer from the phenomenon known as "extreme uncoordinated care."

Sounds like laziness to me

1 posted on 10/19/2013 10:37:13 AM PDT by Java4Jay
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To: Java4Jay

Lawyers account for another 21 percent.


2 posted on 10/19/2013 10:39:33 AM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: Java4Jay

Obamacare is the pinnacle of wealth distribution


3 posted on 10/19/2013 10:40:08 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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and we knew this 20 years ago, this looks like a federal agency trying to justify itself by copying someone else’s work.


4 posted on 10/19/2013 10:40:50 AM PDT by dila813
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To: Java4Jay

This will be solved by the death panels.


5 posted on 10/19/2013 10:40:55 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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Don’t worry. Obamacare has a provision for dealing with the 1% .. They call um death panels.


6 posted on 10/19/2013 10:41:14 AM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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Many suffer from the phenomenon known as “extreme uncoordinated care.”

Another disability?


7 posted on 10/19/2013 10:41:39 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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It’s no coincidence they’re pushing this in the schools right now.

Prepping little johnny for the death panel rejecting his grandfathers heart surgery as ‘too expensive’ and a ‘waste of resources’.

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8 posted on 10/19/2013 10:42:05 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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9 posted on 10/19/2013 10:42:29 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule the all)
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“Many suffer from the phenomenon known as “extreme uncoordinated care.””

Iatrogenic. It means physician induced illness. (For example: One physician treats for hyperactivity with, say, a downer and the other treats for the resulting near comatose state with an upper.)


10 posted on 10/19/2013 10:44:55 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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Could also mean the patient seeking a second opinion.

Those will likely not be allowed for the non politically connected.

Or anyone who is conservative.


11 posted on 10/19/2013 10:46:47 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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so my elderly inlaws...get all their meds...have had multiple surgeries for knees and shoulders and one broken femur..bypass surgery, numerous mri's for this and that, plus xrays, and lab tests as well....they go in for any cold that last more than 24 hrs.....they collect SS and have for over 20 yrs at least.....

my one sil has had gastric bypass, is at least two foot surgeries, visits to the eye dr and of course hysterctomy....on mulitple meds and seems like she sees the dr every other week....also back surgery...all on the public dime since she got "disabled" and was on SSD from the early 20's until early 40's, then worked for a few years before she got "disabled" again...turns out she is diabetic, took horrible care of herself and now is facing dialysis and of course wants to get a transplant too....

these three people alone have cost the taxpayer a few million dollars.....three people....

12 posted on 10/19/2013 10:46:51 AM PDT by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: headstamp 2

“This will be solved by the death panels.”

BINGO!


13 posted on 10/19/2013 10:47:43 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Java4Jay

Let’s start by refusing heart bypasses and replacement parts to 95 year olds. You can’t rely on the common sense of doctors because they don’t have any objections as long as the taxpayers are paying for it.


14 posted on 10/19/2013 10:48:10 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Could also mean the patient seeking a second opinion.

"Ok, you're ugly, too."

RIP Rodney!

15 posted on 10/19/2013 10:49:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Sorry, that was actually Henny Youngman.


16 posted on 10/19/2013 10:50:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Java4Jay

I’ll bet that these consumers of the biggest portion of the Healy care budget are drug and alcahol abusers and AIDS virus carriers.


17 posted on 10/19/2013 10:50:16 AM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: dila813

Yep and perhaps this is why insurance companies have lifetime caps.


18 posted on 10/19/2013 10:53:21 AM PDT by JLS
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To: Java4Jay

Liberals always like to put a price on life. Don’t fall for their “you are too expensive to let live” crap. Always respond, “Well, then we should proactively kill you to prevent the risk that you one day might become expensive.”


19 posted on 10/19/2013 10:54:07 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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They wind up in emergency rooms....because there is a sign that says no one will be turned away....aka...medical welfare.


20 posted on 10/19/2013 10:57:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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