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NewsTransparent expenses keep hospital overhead low
As the industry shifts toward more transparent and accountable healthcare, hospitals should take note of Lake of the Woods District Hospital for motivation. The Ontario, Canada-based hospital posts Read more...
Healthcare will comprise ten percent of military spending
Next time you hear chatter about proposed cuts to military spending, consider yourself part of the conversation. Healthcare will soon account for ten percent of Defense Department expenditures, a Read more...
Study: Blame Medicare, not insurers for high health spending
Health spending continues to be a concern in America, with projections as high as $4.5 trillion by 2019. In looking for someone to blame, however, a new study published today in the journal Health Read more...
More coverage for less cost not 'politically feasible', health reform study indicates
Options existed for health reform that could have either lowered federal spending by $20 billion per year without decreasing the number of newly insured citizens or increased coverage to 4 million Read more...
Sebelius, Cornyn share different views on healthcare reform at AHA's annual meeting
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) agree that "volume over value" is a concept that needs to be reversed in hospitals throughout America. But how Read more...
Forecast: Health overhaul will succeed in covering more, fail in reducing costs
The good news: Health reform will add approximately 34 million currently uninsured Americans to the rolls. The bad: The bitterly disputed overhaul will increase national healthcare spending by $311 Read more...
Urban Institute: Reform failure could push middle class over the financial edge
Failure to pass a significant national reform package could have unpleasant consequences for the nation's healthcare system and its middle class. Ten million additional Americans could become Read more...
Malpractice payments at their lowest value since 1999
Despite all the fingers pointed toward malpractice litigation as a cause of rising healthcare expenses, total malpractice payments made on behalf of doctors in 2009--$3.49 billion--represent just Read more...
Healthcare spending could reach $4.5 trillion by 2019
Healthcare spending jumped 1.1 percentage points in 2009, and now accounts for 17.3 percent of the economy. Within two years, though, government spending on healthcare is projected to be more than Read more...
Despite totaling $2.3 trillion, health spending 'decelerated' in '08
Although hospital spending increased in 2008 by 4.5 percent, to $718.4 billion, investment losses and slower growth in Medicaid hospital spending made it the slowest increase rate since 1998, Read more...
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