... and find a LOT MORE posters HERE.
and you've GOT to see this history of health care costs here.
Posted on 07/02/2009 5:58:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
When someone takes out a scalpel, it's usually going to hurt — a lot.
Yet Peter Orszag, President Obama's budget director, claims the U.S. could slash $700 billion in annual medical costs without affecting quality.
That would make it much easier to pay for sweeping health care reform, which is struggling on Capitol Hill over cost concerns.
But divining and adopting best practices is trickier than Orszag may realize, some researchers say.
The head of the Office of Management and Budget draws heavily on the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. The atlas has found that Medicare spending varies greatly across the U.S., yet higher spending regions have no better and, at times, worse outcomes than regions that spend less. For example, Miami spends 30% more than Minnesota, but patients aren't any healthier.
Less Is More?
Areas with coordinated care and more primary-care physicians tend to use fewer resources than those with more disjointed care and more specialists.
"We would be on a path toward a much more efficient system," Orszag said recently of achieving health care reform. "When you go to see your doctor, that doctor will have much more information about what specifically is likely to work for your diagnosis, and will have better incentive to be providing high-quality care to you rather than just more care."
But knowing the right treatment is often quite difficult.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
Almost 80% of America is happy with their health care......the best in the world.....so we’ll WRECK it !!
[groan] The only thing worse than having to listen to all the healthcare "reform" debate/propaganda is having to read all the punny headlines featuring tough pill to swallow and the nation's sick healthcare system and patients forced to bite the bullet and just a spoonful of sugar.
RATION and KILL, the opposite side of the abortion coin. Granny, watch your back.
Hey Mr. Deeply Concerned: Not all Americans are textbook. Another freedom down the drain because of a sense of entitlement coupled with a lack of information by an apathetic America that I don’t recognize anymore.
What do you call the reverse of “Why fix something if it works?
This from the administration who thinks a breathalyzer can be used for asthma.
Thanks, I bookmarked the site. It will come very handy
"The modus operandi which politicians have loved for so many years is: 'If it doesn't work, do more of it!' " -- Ian Bernard here
The same ones who said in February that without the stimulus, we'd be looking at double digit unemployment?
And when their stats were challenged as pie-in-the-sky, they said they had more information than the economy experts that were objecting to their numbers - that administration?
It’ll work with pixie dust. Bing. 700 billion saved!!!!
Try to remember what Christmas felt when you were a kid. And then BELIEVE. It’ll work. Come on!!
You have to remember that everything 0bama says is just the opposide
I can't begin to adequately describe how stupid that position is. It's also, unfortunately, predictably stupid. These people are so incredibly naive and uniformed it's almost pathetic. It's kind of like stand up comedy, only they're not all that funny.
Yep!
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