Health Care Reform: The Cost Drivers – One Academic’s View
March 19, 2009 – 22:08What drives the rapidly escalating increases for the cost of health care in the United States?
The following are the views of one PhD on that topic.
Key excerpts:
- 80% of total health care spending linked to chronically ill patients
- Rise in obesity prevalence in the US accounted for 27% of the growth in health spending over the past 20 years.
- We are not going to “solve” the spending growth through a singular focus on health insurance redesign (i.e. HSAs, higher co-pays).
Tags: health care, health care reform, U.S. health care system
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