http://healthcarecostmonitor.thehastingscenter.org/daniel-callahan/cost-control-setting-the-bar/ Commentary and opinion on cost control as part of health care reform from The Hastings Center Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:12:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://healthcarecostmonitor.thehastingscenter.org/daniel-callahan/cost-control-setting-the-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-164 J Maguire Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:51:18 +0000 http://healthcarecostmonitor.thehastingscenter.org/?p=220#comment-164 The health care system in whole is very disjointed and needs to be reigned in in order to begin the first steps toward better health care. We are at a point in history where our treatment based approach is no longer working and there is too much statistical support of a preventative system to deny. According to Dr. Kardos " 'The focus for the past 50 years has been to zero in on the 20 percent of people who account for 80 percent of health expenses' "..." 'This has been a very costly strategic failure because the best you can do by 'managing' sick people is to squeeze out some nominal payment for procedure or avoid the procedures completely.' " http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid107 The health care system in whole is very disjointed and needs to be reigned in in order to begin the first steps toward better health care. We are at a point in history where our treatment based approach is no longer working and there is too much statistical support of a preventative system to deny.
According to Dr. Kardos ” ‘The focus for the past 50 years has been to zero in on the 20 percent of people who account for 80 percent of health expenses’ “…” ‘This has been a very costly strategic failure because the best you can do by ‘managing’ sick people is to squeeze out some nominal payment for procedure or avoid the procedures completely.’ ”
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