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- Title: Better U.S. Health Care at Lower Cost; We Know What Steps Must Be Taken to Improve the Performance of the Health System. Now We Must Develop the Political Will.
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 691 KB
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In the United States, the amount of money spent on health care by all sources, including government, private employers, and individuals, is approximately $7,500 a year per person. In other advanced industrial nations, such as Germany, the bill is roughly one-third less. Yet scores on health care quality measures in the United States are not generally higher than in other wealthy countries and compare poorly on multiple measures. Nor is higher spending buying greater user satisfaction, as chronically ill U.S. patients, who are in most frequent need of care, are generally less satisfied with their care than are their counterparts in other wealthy countries. This picture can be changed. As the Institute of Medicines Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine has found through a series of three workshops, there is substantial evidence that the United States can attain better health with less money. Compared with other wealthy nations, the United States' higher levels of health care spending are primarily attributable to higher prices for products and services rather than to higher service volumes. Nonetheless, opportunities exist to lower both volume and unit price of services without jeopardizing quality. Some methods for cutting excess costs are incorporated into one or another of the health care reform plans that have been proposed by both political parties. But no plan takes full advantage of the range of cost-cutting tools and enabling public policies that the roundtable estimates would lower per capita health care spending by double-digit percentages while protecting or raising quality of care.
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