Moreover, every pound households spend on school fees and other school charges is a pound not spent on child nutrition, health care, medicine, clothes, shelter or sanitation and clean water.
This is what real competition is all about and serves as a testimonial to the fact that government involvement in health care does not put the kibosh on free markets in medicine in the segments of the health care industry where a consumer driven approach can actually work.
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Two of my colleagues here at Forbes, Avik Roy and Robert Langreth, both excellent writers on the subject of health care, have gotten into a spat over the reasons for the high costs of medicine in the American health care system.
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In addition to his work at Scripps, he is vice chairman at the West Wireless Health Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to innovating, validating, and advocating for the use of technologies, including wireless medical devices, that aim to reduce health care costs by transforming medicine.
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Other steps in his plan: streamlining health care administration and emphasizing preventative medicine.
The incredible advances that have been made to medicine and health care in the developed world over the past 100 years have been based on continuous development, on marginal improvements, each one driving the next advance and each one building on the last, until we have reached the stage we are at now.
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In hopes of slowing the epidemic, Dr. Arata Kochi, director of WHO's global TB program, has been promoting DOTS therapy (directly observed treatment, short-course), whereby health-care workers watch patients take their medicine completely and correctly.
As Greg points out in his piece, other than someone who is healthy at the time they are run over by a truck or simply prefer to die sooner than is required by modern medicine, everyone will need health care.
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I'm wondering, as a practitioner of Oriental medicine, knowing that the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization has discovered through their studies that alternative medicine often is more cost-effective and very effective, how will alternative medicine fit in your new health care program?
And so when we think about health care, I want to know from you if the things like preexisting conditions and preventive medicine, if they are a symptom of what's going on in our health care system, then what is the problem and how do you address it?
Rolling back subsidies for health insurance is not pleasant medicine, but past improvements in health technology mean that even low-cost care is superior to the state-of-the-art a few decades ago.
At the age of 55 the trim Nebraska native has veered sharply from the practice of medicine to study how to make health care work better as a business.
The modern health-care system she experienced upended her idealistic view of medicine.
We are harnessing advances in technology, in science and in medicine to the cause of constantly improving health care for all our citizens.
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We must renew that commitment by giving seniors access to the preventive medicine and new drugs that are transforming health care in America.
After all, rationing health care is in no way beneficial to those who practice of medicine.
This will reduce the practice of defensive medicine and save billions of dollars in wasted health care spending.
If you get sick under Japan's socialized health care system, the government will set the price of your medicine.
The results are "disappointing, " said Emily Oken, a professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, who wrote an editorial to accompany the paper but wasn't involved in the study.
And they continue to measure health care against the golden age of fee-for-service medicine, when they could see specialists without the bother of getting a referral from their primary physicians, and when their hapless employers simply picked up the tab.
Aegerion will certify all health care providers who prescribe JUXTAPID and the pharmacies that will dispense the medicine.
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My move from medicine to teaching high school science and writing about health care has been immensely rewarding for me.
"Medicine isn't monolithic anymore, " says health care consultant Robert Laszewski.
That's the term Topol uses in his 2012 book, "The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, " to refer to the transformation that accompanies radical innovation.
Topol makes his case in a new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, released as an eBook today and scheduled for hardcover release from Basic Books in January.
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Digital health aspires to elevate human health and the practice of medicine by enabling providers to offer compassionate care with engaged patients, care that is informed by both updated, evidence-driven guidelines and patient data of almost unimaginable richness and depth.
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The Health and Social Care Committee were listening to evidence from British Association of Perinatal Medicine, on 9 February 2012.
Physician and insurer groups like to collapse all conversations about cost growth in health care to malpractice reform, while their opponents trivialize the role of defensive medicine.
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The widespread replacement of fee-for-service medicine with managed care led to a period of much lower health care cost growth.
Even in Britain, the mother of socialized medicine, people are allowed to opt out of the national health care system.
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