It's Physician Pay, Stupid!

In 2006, health-care expenditures in the U.S. rose 6%, a rate of growth significantly higher than inflation and one that, if sustained, would lead to a doubling in health-care spending in a mere dozen years.  Some of that extra spending was a function of more doctors doing more things to more people—an increasing number of hip replacements, for example, for senior citizens hobbled by degenerative joints… (Read more and view comments at Forbes)
 
 

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