Sentences with phrase «true health care consumers»

Patients aren't true health care consumers because they typically can't shop by price and they often don't have control over the care they receive, Saini said.

Patients aren't true health care consumers because they typically can't shop by price and they often don't have control over the care they receive, Saini said.

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And while true reform will require all the relevant parties — government, industry, and health care consumers themselves — to make major adjustments, an insurgent group of digital health companies is doing its best to drag American medicine into the 21st century kicking and screaming.

«The ability to bring point - of - care sperm testing to the consumer, or health facilities with limited resources, is a true game changer,» said John Petrozza, MD, a co-author of the study and director of the MGH Fertility Center.

The ninety - nine cent price of a fast - food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost — to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food - borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.