Now that U.S. healthcare costs are approaching an eye-popping 25 percent of GDP and barely 30 percent of U.S. doctors work in primary care, it is time for us to pay attention.
For many years and in countless articles, physicians have been the scapegoat for rising healthcare costs in the U.S. In fact, they have been blamed by many critics for the U.S. leading the world in healthcare expenditures.
The collective gasp you hear is the U.S. healthcare industry asking: Have we been wrong all along?
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Surprisingly, the organization that calculates pricing for almost all of U.S. healthcare is a little known cabal.
Researchers would construct the path that would force the U.S. healthcare system to get right with history.
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Maud Mensa-Bonsu settles into her cubicle in Arlington, Texas, ready to attend a training class given by her employer, Aetna U.S. Healthcare.
For years now, U.S. healthcare has been experiencing something of a revolution: Better technology and computer systems have radically improved the quality of healthcare.
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Unless Americans can nip the obesity epidemic in the butt, statistics of where the U.S. healthcare budget is headed, show that the future looks abysmal.
In addition, anticipated changes in U.S. healthcare will provide meaningful new opportunities to link the needs of patients, consumers and healthcare professionals to enable them to navigate their care.
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Just like State Farm can dock you if you have a few fender benders, upstarts like Aetna's U.S. Healthcare and UnitedHealth started writing individual policies based on physicals and medical histories.
Job growth in the U.S. healthcare sector has consistently outpaced job growth in the rest of the economy, adding an average of 23, 000 new jobs each month over the past year.
The lawsuit is a combined horror story of the U.S. healthcare and legal systems, particularly the practice of courts to assign blame to deep-pocketed drug companies for injuries caused by medical malpractice.
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The company has seen significant growth in enrollments over the past several years, and we expect that U.S. healthcare reform will allow it to meaningfully increase its enrollments over the next four years.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, WLP makes up 7.21% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Providers Index Fund ETF (IHF)which is trading lower by about 0.1% on the day Thursday.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, AET makes up 5.96% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Providers Index Fund ETF ( AMEX: IHF )which is trading lower by about 0.9% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, CVH makes up 2.44% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Providers Index Fund ETF ( AMEX: IHF )which is trading lower by about 1.4% on the day Monday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, UNH makes up 13.31% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Providers Index Fund ETF ( AMEX: IHF) which is trading higher by about 0.1% on the day Thursday.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, ABBV and UNH collectively make up 6.47% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Sector Index Fund ETF (IYH) which is up by about 0.9% on the day Tuesday.
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For all the talk of health care stocks sickening in the wake of Obama Care, health plan providers have held steady, evidenced by the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Provider ETF (IHF) trading at the same level as it was in mid-March when the health care reform bill was passed.
Other companies that derive more than 30% of their revenues from the U.S. are healthcare group Fresenius, supermarket chain Ahold, drug-makers Roche and Sanofi-Aventis, and Nestle.
Bangalore is 9 to 12 hours ahead of the U.S. Aetna Healthcare's chief information officer, John Brighton, says that one reason he farms work out to India and not Mexico is the time gap.
The reports were sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Most people agree the biggest problem with the healthcare system in the U.S. is that it costs too much.
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Through text messaging and an extensive online platform, Vineet is able to engage communities at free clinics across the U.S. in preventive healthcare education.
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According to research compiled by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the percentage of false-positive readings is between 7% and 8% for women aged 40 to 59 who took the test.
This guest post was written by Keith Figlioli, the senior vice president of healthcare informatics for the Premier healthcare alliance, a national performance improvement alliance of more than 2, 600 U.S. hospitals and 84, 000-plus other healthcare sites using the power of collaboration to lead the transformation to high-quality, cost-effective care.
Medicaid is a U.S. government program which provides healthcare primarily for economically disadvantaged or medically underserved people.
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