Kaiser Health News and PBS Newshour: Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs
Submitted By Anonymous, Created 10/30/2012 - 13:15
- We pay our doctors, hospitals and other medical providers in ways that reward doing more, rather than being efficient.
- We're growing older, sicker and fatter.
- We want new drugs, technologies, services and procedures.
- We get tax breaks on buying health insurance -- and the cost to patients of seeking care is often low.
- We don't have enough information to make decisions on which medical care is best for us.
- Our hospitals and other providers are increasingly gaining market share and are better able to demand higher prices.
- We have supply and demand problems, and legal issues that complicate efforts to slow spending.
Source: Kaiser Health News
Source URL: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/October/25/heal...