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The High Cost of Not Reforming Health Care.

by Newspaper Contributors

A lot of the debate about reforming health care revolves around a false choice — the simplistic idea that transforming the health system would be far more expensive than sticking with the current system.

A growing body of scholarly evidence points to the fallacy of that argument. Two new studies underscore that doing nothing would carry significant new costs in both the short and long terms.

A study in the journal Health Affairs estimates that by next year, the number of u ...

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Posted by: Clifton K. Meador, M.D.
Comment: #1
Thu Jun 4, 2009 9:06 AM

Healthcare can be reformed if Medicare would use the data they now have and do one of several things: cut out paying hospitals for big procedures when the annual volumes are below the literature determined standards for "safe numbers" and stop paying hospitals who have unacceptable mortality and / or infection rates. Addressing the existing hospital data could reduce a lot of expense and increase the quality of care. I am attempting to trace the history of the excesses of our current system at http://doctorstalking.blogspot.com . Perhaps others will join in the discussion.

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