The numbers get even bigger when you consider health care demand in China and India.
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Medicaid, by lowering the perceived price of medical care, increases the demand on care providers.
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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.
Analysts believe a core reason CIGNA and Humana have bought onsite clinic businesses is to ensure they have a supply of primary care physicians as demand increases for primary care.
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Others come about because patients demand care they think they need.
Seems like our employees are working a lot more than ever and we've, you know, we've had to buy new trucks and hire on more people to take care of the demand here.
The rise of onsite clinics that have primary care as their foundation continues to create more demand for primary care doctors.
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Many health-care experts say PAs will be in even greater demand when the Affordable Care Act expands insurance to 30 million more Americans next year.
As a result, they may scale back the care they provide or demand higher state payments.
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The centre said it is in the process of expanding its premises to handle the demand for care in the region.
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.
But the RCN says it can see no justification for a decline in nursing numbers at a time of increasing demand for care, with an ageing population, and growing numbers or patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease.
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.
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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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.
About 100 non-urgent operations at two Lancashire hospitals have been cancelled after "unprecedented" demand for urgent care.
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.
He said there had been a 10% rise in demand for unscheduled care by those aged over 85.
Independent Living Services (ILS) plans to take on new care workers to cope with demand in the south of Scotland.
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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Thus, it makes sense at this point to roll back the subsidies gradually while taking care to not impact smartphone demand too much.
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The growing demand for health care should be an opportunity for more efficient services and better medicines and procedures at a more affordable cost.
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