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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
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... 
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...
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 
-based healthcare is the best answer.
A few alternatives(1) Limit liability costs via tort reform.
(2) Unmask...’s healthcare system…this is your government running healthcare. It is costly and inefficient. I would not think...
that can be manufactured at virtually zero cost.
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costs in The United States, this study calls into question the cost of RotaTeq, Dr. Paul Offit...;119(4):684-97. Links
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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... 
, putting it off as long as possible and then looking for the lowest cost option possible , whether or not..., problems typically require much more treatment at much greater cost than they would had they been treated...
. But the costs of these programs are actually more than their budgeted value. That’s because hospitals and physicians have a hard time covering their costs through reimbursement from public programs and look... 
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