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Cut costs, cut costs, cut costs. That’s what we have been hearing lately (30 + years?) in order to effectively reform health care.
The problem is those costs are someone’s income. In a free market economy...
As always, a thoughtful piece by Steve Bailey in today's Boston Globe, this one quoting Regina Herzlinger from Harvard Business School. An excerpt:
What consumers need, she says, is greater transparency. "The premise is 
healthcare is the best answer.
A few alternatives(1) Limit liability costs via tort reform.
(2) Unmask... healthcare system…this is your government running healthcare. It is costly and inefficient. I would not think...
words such as control, cost, cut, free, and charge.
The five phrases below are quotes taken from two... of Babel.
1) “Control the costs of medical care” starts our mass confusion. A payer, whether government... 
that can be manufactured at virtually zero cost.
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care costs are expected to ease slightly for employers in 2009. There is deception in this fact. The overall decrease in healthcare costs for businesses is the result of its shifting the burden of costs...
costs in The United States, this study calls into question the cost of RotaTeq, Dr. Paul Offit's...;119(4):684-97. Links
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Evid Based Med. 2007 Oct;12(5):153.
Cost-effectiveness...
Oncology is the area where the health care cost conundrum is coming into sharpest focus... the costs of new treatments are so high, and the improvements usually modest enough, that when it comes...
In her 2/29/2012 Atlantic blog, Megan McArdle discusses, " What Cutting Health Care Costs Looks Like ".
Basically, stricter cost control measures by hospitals shifts some of the work onto unpaid family members...
By Kim Stagliano As President Obama looks at revamping out of control health care costs in The United States, this study calls into question the cost of RotaTeq, Dr. Paul Offit's rotavirus vaccine 
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