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Overuse of antibiotics adds $20B/year to the cost of healthcare in the U.S.
Antibiotic-resistant infections like MRSA and VRE are now adding $20 billion a year to the cost of U.S. healthcare, a problem bred by overuse of antibiotics by providers, according to recent... Read more...
What good is healthcare reform without enough doctors?
There appears to be one significant gap that the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare reform bill doesn't address: The shortage of doctors. The American Academy of Family Physicians predicts that... Read more...
Panel says health 2.0 approaches can lower administrative costs
This week, at San Francisco's Health 2.0 meeting, they're not just talking about how cool social media-based healthcare applications are. At least one panel is suggesting that health 2.0 technology... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Congress may limit insurers' abilities to charge higher premiums to older patients
Historically, two people with the same gender, activity level and health status could expect to pay dramatically different insurance rates if their ages were different, with the younger person... Read more...
Study: Health premiums up 95 percent since 2000
Here's a new health expense number that has a certain horror-movie quality, even to those of us who have followed the business for decades. According to a new study nonprofit advocacy group Families... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Prevention may be nice, but it's expensive
Much of the talk around preventive care assumes that if more is given, overall healthcare costs will be lower. The reality, however, is that this doesn't seem to be the case, according to one report.... Read more...
Study: Investment in community health saves states millions
While states are struggling to hold their budgets together, keeping basic services in place can pay off. That's definitely the case when it comes to primary care, according to a new study conducted... Read more...
Insomnia costing $42B a year; Minorities, poor less likely to see doctors with EMRs;
> A new report from Sanofi-Aventis and The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest contends that delays in insomnia diagnosis and treatment is costing the U.S. at least $42 billion in direct... Read more...
Report: Uncompensated care costs passed to insured
When people can't pay their healthcare bill, the money comes out of the pockets of the insured. Such is the conclusion of a new report from consumer advocacy group Families USA, which says insured... Read more...
Study: 1M Californians per year get care in Mexico
Well, here's a medical tourism tidbit that deserves more attention: According to a new UCLA study appearing in the journal Medical Care, almost a million California residents seek medical care in... Read more...
