Cancer care spending

• NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) - With the United States spending more on healthcare than any other country - $2.
(Huffington Post)
• With the United States spending more on healthcare than any other country — $2.
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• And those costs did grow. Between 1983 and 1999, the period covered by the study, U.S. spending on cancer care grew 49 percent (in 2010 dollars). By comparison, spending in the 10 European countries included in the study grew by 16 percent.
(NPR News)
• U.S. cancer patients often live almost two years longer than Our findings bear on the larger question of whether higher U.S. health care spending is worth it, suggesting -- although not confirming -- that it is, the researchers wrote.
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• "A key question for policy makers is whether the U.S. survival gains are actually produced by higher U.S. spending on cancer care or by some other factor unrelated to the healthcare delivery system," the Health Affairs paper said.
(ModernHealthcare.com)
• And a particularly sobering recommendation calls for cancer doctors problem of high health care costs. The nations medical bill hit $2.6 trillion in 2010.
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• As much as 30 percent of health-care spending goes to procedures the report makes clear that expense was a major factor. A number of cancer drugs cost nearly $100,000 but extend life a few months or not at all.
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