That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about
the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.
That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about
the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of...
Not exact matches
The
cost of health care is
spiraling out
of control.
As the United States grapples with what many believe is a crisis
of spiraling health care costs, this study, while focused on one hospital and 100 patients, shows that when
health care consumers are given pricing information, they will take
costs into account.
The president and Congress must reach at least three additional objectives for the U.S. to rehabilitate its alarmingly dysfunctional
health care system: 1) figure out a way to lower medical
costs, which threaten to bankrupt the country if they continue
spiraling upward; 2) improve the
health outcomes
of its patients; and 3) make
health care affordable for businesses and individuals.
Yes, one
of the primary purposes
of the new bill was to reduce the long term upward
spiral of health care costs, and by most accounts, the measure is projected to do that.
What we can do in our corner
of the policy world, at least, is address the
spiraling retirement
costs (pensions and
health care) that are taking money directly out
of the classroom.
That approach is why we have
health care costs that have
spiraled out
of control, it's why we have public school systems that were allowed to collapse, and it's why we're still fighting poverty with the same old programs that haven't worked.
Given how the
cost of health care is
spiraling out
of control, it would definitely make for a good idea to invest in a children
health insurance policy.