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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Our economy has increasing demand for workers with advanced skills, such as teachers, health care workers, and environmental engineers, " he said.
The additional paying customers with what many believe will be a pent up demand for medical care service are already expected to stress the health care system, putting more pressure on primary care doctors like internists and family doctors.
Labour-market reforms would increase demand for less-skilled workers, particularly in service industries such as health care.
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The demand for services was mixed among the various districts, with strength in technology and health care industries offsetting some weakness in other service sectors.
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.
The primary advantage to owning health care properties is that they tend to be recession resistant in that demand for health services is relatively inelastic.
But there is one thing we can immediately do to restrain health care costs -- which is yield to the country's demand for a harder line on illegal immigration.
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We also must demand greater oversight and fraud prevention in Medicare and Medicaid -- the nation's health care programs for the seniors, the poor and the disabled.
Experts say it is increasingly important for patients to lock in a primary-care doctor soon because of expected increased demand for physicians starting in 2014, when the new federal health-overhaul law will add millions of people to the health-insurance rolls.
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