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Following years of prodigious spending, health insurers, doctors and hospital are making efforts...

  • Thursday, May 24, 2012, 11:38 AM ET
    Following years of prodigious spending, health insurers, doctors and hospital are making efforts to halve the growth in the U.S.'s $2.7T healthcare bill to bring it more in line with inflation. One problem, though, is that the more tests and procedures doctors and hospitals do, the more money they get.
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    Can't have open season by ambulance-chasing tort lawyers and expect medical providers to skimp on tests. It's legal defense, not medicine.
    24 May 2012, 11:40 AM Reply Like
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    Make public unions pay co-pays and get some skin in the game.

    Qualify test for medicaid and whoever qualifies, make them pay co-pays and get some skin in the game.

    Force insurers to go across state lines for competitive bids and end the state run monopolies.
    24 May 2012, 11:42 AM Reply Like
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