The numbers get even bigger when you consider health care demand in China and India.
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Due to poorer health, higher cost services and pent up demand for health care, there are numerous concerns about high-risk and expensive individuals.
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When Andy Stern, the president of SEIU stands with Lee Scott, the President of Wal-Mart, and they both demand health care reform that covers everyone, you know we're ready for change.
But for all the changes on the margin, New Labour has not yet devised a strategy capable of matching the resources available for health care to the rising demand for it.
In some ways, Democrats are sounding like Republicans in the health care debacle, who demand to be included, offer a host of ideas, and when a few are accepted, they say it's not enough.
Even if the health budget gets 8% more in cash terms over the three years, that will still fall short of headline inflation over the three years, and probably further behind the rising cost of sustaining health care and meeting rising demand and expectations.
Rosales, a single mother, came to Project Quest, a sectoral program in San Antonio, Texas, where she was able to choose from among a range of professions identified by local health care employers as in demand: medical laboratory technician, medical transcriptionist, radiography technologist, and registered nurse, to name but a few.
Why isn't the growing demand for health care an opportunity rather than a problem?
So if there is a limit to demand for health care, it is still far away.
Demand for health care is rising, and the National Health Service is struggling to keep up.
It also found nothing to suggest that there was pent-up demand for health care among the uninsured.
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But demand for health care is income-elastic: as people get richer they spend proportionately more on it.
In the end, someone will also have to put the brakes on the unbridled demand for health care.
If you provide more insurance to more people to cover more procedures, you increase demand for health care.
The growing demand for health care should be an opportunity for more efficient services and better medicines and procedures at a more affordable cost.
But, even if such money is found through charges, the lesson of history is that demand for health care will never be entirely satisfied.
But the average pharmacy ekes out a 2% profit on prescriptions, and those profits are being squeezed further as health plans and managed care organizations demand ever-deeper discounts.
Growing demand for health care is considered a serious problem.
This must be complemented with measures to foster demand for quality health care to ensure families and communities are aware of life-saving medicines, know how to access them, and understand how and when to use them.
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But there's more: If Congress meets Obama's demand for a health care overhaul that will extend coverage to most Americans, some of the hundreds of billions in new spending will trickle to the HMOs that help states build networks of doctors and hospitals and handle claims.
As health care consumers, we have a responsibility to not only demand better, more affordable care, but also to put our money where our mouths are.
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It could also lead to new health-care-related consumer products during a time of growing demand for devices that can monitor the health of seniors.
Lives will be saved if we get the balance right between demand and supply of health care services and commodities.
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Most of the growth coming next year will come from the sale of generic drugs in so-called emerging markets, places like China and India where consumers are beginning to be able to demand and afford better health care.
And an increasingly assertive Hispanic caucus, in an increasingly Democratic state, also seems sure to demand better schools and health care for the people it represents, who currently lag far behind the Anglos on any social indicator you care to name.
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The traits on display may offer lessons for Detroit as U.S. carmakers reel from losses, slack demand and the costs of health care and retirement.
But although overall growth is likely to be modest for some years, there are still plenty of opportunities, particularly in agribusiness and mining, and in catering for growing demand for education, health-care and the like.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the health care and social assistance industry will create some 28% of all the new jobs in the U.S. from 2010 to 2020, as extended longevity and an aging population push up demand for all kinds of health care professionals.
The struggling companies will demand big concessions in wages and health care.
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