Wednesday, April 18, 2012

I've often wondered why health care costs go up exponentially

I've heard that the reason that health care costs increase at such a great rate has something to do with the lack of adherence to medical advice, including when or how strictly prescription medication is taken.  I know if people would follow preventive health care practices that often they wouldn't wait until their health would be so compromised that going to the E.R. would be the only way to get better.
I was reading an opinion piece in The New York Times over the weekend titled, "Why Medical Bills Are Such a Mystery."  The basic premise is best summed up by the following statement: "We don’t know what it costs to deliver health care to individual patients, much less how those costs compare to the outcomes achieved."
Please read the full opinion piece at
http://tinyurl.com/7mrboyu
and let me know what you think.