Many these days are attributing to the cost of healthcare as a supply demand issue and want the market forces to take their own course.  These are the people who tend to miss the point that healthcare market has been rarely about open market conditions.  The healthcare is heavily lobbied industry.  Till recently, American Medical Association and other industry groups [...]

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We have over the years seen a rapid rise in the healthcare cost. Many have been made to believe that the industry needs to be given the freedom to compete.  We have been told that the free market will drive the quality up and cost down. Not True!  The number of deaths and injuries in [...]

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 79 million adults cannot pay their medical bills.  And that is not the most startling number from the latest Commonwealth Fund report. It’s that 61% of those people were insured, says Dana Blankenhorn.  Dana is a noted journalist and blogs at Zdnet.com. The report, called Losing Ground, validates the long held fear that the statistic [...]

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 Over the last several years, the healthcare cost has risen at a much faster rate than the GDP.  Many can not afford healthcare anymore.  Managed care introduced to reduce cost, while worked for a while, has failed to deliver the cost control. We need healthcare for all!  I believe that it is a basic human [...]

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Healthcare cost over the last decade has risen at a much faster rate than inflation.  Wall Street reports in one of its article “More Scrutiny from Tripple Digit  Drug Price Hikes” that the cost of certain medicines has doubled in just last one year.  On the aggregate, the price increase has averaged over 7% per year. Overall [...]

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