Comments on: Many Experts Say Health-Care System Inefficient, Wasteful

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Hospital Providing Better Health Care While Reducing Costs

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:32:07 +0000

[...] failure. For decades the enormous cost of supporting special interest groups that benefit from the current broken system have forced the rest of society to pay for their unwillingness to improve. We can no longer afford [...]

By: Deficit Threat from Health Care Costs at Curious Cat Economics Blog

Deficit Threat from Health Care Costs at Curious Cat Economics Blog — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:58:17 +0000

Medicare is set to become a drain on federal finances by 2017. If health-care costs continue to grow at the same rate, the cost of Medicare and Medicaid will be 20% of GDP by 2050…

By: Health Insurers Propose Pricing and Coverage Without Respect to Health at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:48:15 +0000

[...] improvement. However, it is far from the solution. Many problems are not solved by that at all. The huge amount of waste generated by insures and all the forms, needless bureaucracy… they generate is hard to [...]

By: Curious Cat Management Blog » USA Spent $2.2 Trillion or $7,421 Per Person on Health Care in 2007

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:55:27 +0000

The costs for health services and supplies for 2007 were distributed among businesses (25%), households (31%), other private sponsors (4%), and governments (40%)…