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health care costs

  1. Blue Mountain

    Merged "Bitter Pill": Major article on US expensive healthcare (Time)

    Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us (link is to the "printable" version) It's not a light-weight article: at nearly 25,000 words, it gives a detailed reckoning of the endemic problems in the US health care system as it's currently constituted: large bills for routine care and...
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    • Forum: USA Politics
  2. thaiboxerken

    Efficiency of Medicare vs Private Insurance

    Medicare Has Controlled Costs Better Than Private Insurance Medicare Has Lower Administrative Costs Than Private Plans. So-called “competition” in the private health care market has driven costs up. Medicare Is Publicly Accountable, Private Plans Are Not...
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    • Forum: USA Politics
  3. Blue Mountain

    The $23,000 bug bite

    Bug bites ten year old boy; total bill is $23,800 Short version: After a bug bite got infected, the kid ended up with MRSA. It was treated, but the bill is $23,800. The blogger's insurance, still covered by COBRA after his company relocated from California to Texas, is paying about 95% of the...
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    • Forum: Social Issues
  4. Professor Yaffle

    Split Thread Screening tests in USA v universal healthcare countries

    Split from: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149030 They have routine colonoscopies in the US to detect bowel cancer, whereas the NHS uses a FOB test with colonoscopies on those with abnormal results.
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