Critics of long-term-care insurance argue that many who need long-term care use it for less than 90 days, and that most policies have a 90-day deductible, meaning most owners of long-term care insurance will receive no benefits.
What I'm trying to do is figure out how do we bend the curve of costs so that we're getting more and more efficient care, higher-quality care, at less cost per person?
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Is health care less -- and can you reconcile those visions, why one is in private, one should be on CSPAN, ever part of the process?
Instead, he said it focussed on what success would look like - better dementia care, less premature deaths from things like heart disease and cancer - leaving it to the NHS to decide how best to go about it.
People who benefit from the more-intensive primary care provided by medical home practices spend 25%-60% less on hospitals, emergency care, advanced imaging, etc.
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It may be a combination of ineffective government family leave and child-care policies, less willingness to individually assert themselves, and employer discrimination.
Those picking up the tab for health care welcome the moves by hospital operators and others toward less costly patient-care settings like urgent care, especially as Medicare and Medicaid programs move toward paying providers for coordinating care.
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Though it is encouraging that the central government is taking up a bigger share of health-care spending, this is still low: less than one-tenth of total government spending on the health sector last year.
The populist note is especially important: When he starts receiving Medicare, Bill Gates should bear a greater share of his health-care costs than the less healthy or less wealthy.
To make matters worse, Fisher found that patients in high-cost areas were actually less likely to receive low-cost preventive services, such as flu and pneumonia vaccines, faced longer waits at doctor and emergency-room visits, and were less likely to have a primary-care physician.
Finally, all these inflation protections are based on government calculations of CPI, which some experts say understate the real cost of living, especially for retirees who spend a larger than average percentage of their income on fast-rising health care expenses and less on technology products that tend to fall in price.
He says he doesn't have much faith in the current rally because the year's best performers have been health-care and consumer-staple stocks that tend to pay high dividends and are less volatile than the broader market.
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He could care less about the embattled middle-class UAW workers earning more than a hundred grand.
So maybe the most significant failure of the Ryan budget is its omission of less sweeping health-care reforms that could lead to marginal improvements in the interim.
Across the region, there is a growing suspicion that in the rush to cash in on Southeast Asia's health-care boom, some operators are less than scrupulous about maintaining medical standards.
Primary-care doctors, such as pediatricians and family physicians, often make less than half of what top-paid specialists like orthopedic surgeons earn, and the idea of changing how they are paid has been around for years.
Limiting the declines were the strongest sectors of the year: health-care, utilities and consumer-staples stocks, known as defensive sectors, which are less tied to economic swings.
To tackle these diseases, we need holistic solutions, especially in countries with less-developed health-care systems.
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Letters have been sent to all senior doctors asking them to spend two hours a week less on non-clinical care.
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Health-care spending through Medicare represents an even less equitable story.
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The authors of this study say as children mature, they require less care and stress for parents -- and can become a source of support for moms and dads.
According to Kate Baicker, one of the Dartmouth economists, states with more general practitioners seem to spend less and have better quality care--perhaps because primary care docs help make sure patients have the most basic, effective care.
Labour-market reforms would increase demand for less-skilled workers, particularly in service industries such as health care.
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Up to now there have been precious few consumer-directed pressures to bring about better care at less cost.
Hedge fund managers worship volatility and couldn't care less if performance goes up or down--as long as it doesn't go sideways.
It would also require changing the contracts for city workers: making them stump up bigger health-care contributions and work longer weeks, with less overtime.
Because this tax is -- in most instances -- less costly than providing a health care plan, many employers will simply forgo employee health benefits.
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Proponents of insurance incentives claim they are fair because people with no lifestyle-related health risks typically use less medical care than those who have many.
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The other part of the equation is students can use the savings in the classes they care less strongly about, to buy a first-class, artisanal product for the subjects that are most important to them.
Health-care reforms are vaguer, but would include doctors receiving less from Medicare and patients paying more.
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