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TalkLeft: Negotiating Health Care Costs
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Kaiser Permanente CEO's astonishing charts show why US healthcare costs so much http://bit.ly/3Dsra (via @ahier @brown2020) 9 days ago |
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Quick: What's the bill for a routine doc visit and how many times bigger is it than in Canada? Answer: http://bit.ly/3uoi38 #healthcare 10 days ago |
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Prices: http://bit.ly/2dHg8H 12 days ago |
Negotiating Health Care Costs
TalkLeft —
Ezra Klein writes: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care. As [Kaiser Permanente CEO] Halvorson explained, and academics and consultancies have repeatedly confirmed, if you leave everything else the same -- the volume of procedures, the days we spend in the hospital, the number of surgeries we need -- but plug in the prices Canadians pay, our health-care spending falls by about 50 percent. In other countries, ...
Why American Health Care Is So Expensive
The New Republic blogs —
Ezra Klein , channeling Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care. As Halvorson explained, and ...
We may have to lower the cost of med school
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... At least, that’s the conclusion I draw from this article by Ezra, which shows that we pay American doctors way too fucking much. I knew that already, but as Ezra says, you don’t usually see prices written down during the health-care debate. And now that I have...well, damn. Are American doctors so personable that they’re worth ten times as much as doctors in Spain? ...
Prices! Prices! Prices!
Talking Points Memo —
Another important read from Ezra Klein on why the current version of health care reform is missing the boat.
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How Much Does Health Care Cost?
Swampland —
A lot more than it does in other countries, especially if you are buying--as most of us do--a la carte. Ezra Klein has some eye-opening charts , showing average prices in different countries, which come to him via Kaiser Permanante CEO George Halvorson: ...
Health Care: Bookmark this One
The Moderate Voice —
... Via Ezra Klein. At the end of his post, note the link to the full package of charts. The last chart in that package, in particular — see below — caught my eye, begging many questions. ...
Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?
The Glittering Eye —
... Ezra Klein is undoubtedly correct, even tautological, in his assertion about why U. S. healthcare is so expensive in his conversation with Kaiser-Permanente CEO George Halvorson: ...
Ezra Klein’s Astonishing New Charts
QandO —
Or at least they seem to have astonished Klein. Here’s one as an example:
My goodness. As Klein says:
There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care.
Anyone – what’s missing from this rather simplistic explanation?
Cost. What is the real cost of delivering the expected/desired/demanded health care during a doctor’s visit? What ...
Monday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... surrounding Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is pretty serious stuff. * Nice charts on why U.S. health care costs so much. * A tentative agreement on a ...
No- It's Not Reform
Newshoggers.com —
... ). While the insurance industry may be a problem it is not the only problem or even the largest contributor to the outrageous health care expenses in the United States. Not to surprisingly the CEO of Kaiser Permanente agrees but he has some really convincing evidence that he shared with Ezra Klein. ...
Chart Of The Day
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Ezra Klein passes along some striking charts (pdf): There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care. As Halvorson explained, and academics and consultancies have repeatedly confirmed, if you leave everything else
the same -- the volume of procedures, the days we spend in the
hospital, the number of surgeries we need -- but plug in the prices
Canadians pay, our health-care ...
Americans Subsidize Foreign Health Care
Michael Williams – Master of None —
Ezra Klein notices that American pay more per unit of health care than other countries, but completely fails to understand why.
In other countries, governments set the rates that will be paid for different treatments and drugs, even when private insurers are doing the actual purchasing. In our country, the government doesn't set those rates for private insurers, which is why the prices paid by Medicare, as you'll see on some of these graphs, are much lower than those paid by private insurers. You'll also notice that the bit showing American prices is ...
Health Care: Better, Faster, Cheaper!
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... In a much discussed post, Ezra Klein produced a series of graphs showing that Americans pay more for office visits, scans and imaging, drugs, and other aspects of health care — often, far more — than is the case in Canada or Western Europe. ...
The Weiner Not-Quite-HR676 Amendment
Corrente —
... is just icing on the cake for them. Still, I can see setting aside taking on the hospital lobby for another day, another bill. This is one of those don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good compromises I could grit my teeth and live with for awhile, in large part because on of the provisions from HR 676 that stays in this amendment is global budgeting for all institutional providers. So, we wouldn't be removing the profit motive, but there would still be some heavy-duty government-imposed ...
