- Pelosi Assures That ACA Will Cut Deficit • Healthcare Spending Is Out Of Control It appears that the purpose of our health care system -- its raison detre -- is to avoid spending money. (Huffington Post)
- Over the past three years, health-care spending by the Corrections Department has dropped nearly $30 million, in part because of a declining prison population and reduced staff levels. (AZCentral.com)
- A 2005 National Academy of Sciences report found that 30 percent of U.S. health-care spending was unnecessary or wasteful; more recent studies arrive at similar figures. (Washington Post)
- Until now, the health care system has rewarded doctors for volume. Now the focus is shifting to paying for results and coordination. That explains the urgency for doctors themselves to identify areas of questionable spending. (US News and World Report)
- It happened because government gradually took over much of the health care sector. In 1960 less than 5% of health care spending in the U.S. came from government; today more than 50% of it does so. (Forbes)
- WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he is confident the Supreme Court will uphold his health care overhaul. He says his administration is not spending a whole lot of time planning for contingencies in the event that the law is struck down. (msnbc.com)
- President Barack Obama expressed confidence again Tuesday that the Supreme Court will uphold his health care law and said that his administration isn't doing much to prepare for the what-if scenario of the law being overturned. (Politico.com)
- defending his health-care reform law for the second day in a row against the prospect it will be struck down by the Supreme Court, said Tuesday he had "enormous confidence" the law was constitutional. (The Christian Science Monitor)
- Republican lawmakers with experience on health care issues acknowledge that they will have to would prohibit insurers from imposing annual or lifetime limits on spending for covered services. (New York Times)
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Health care spending
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