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  • Comparing Medicine’s Cost and Effectiveness  [View article]
    The problem with health care costs is not health insurance or malpractice lawyers or govt bureaucracy or uninsured patients or marginal comparative benefits of meds or procedures. It's capitalism and it's working. These increased dollars are not evaporating, they are paying for all the new research and procedures and meds. This may be excessive and inefficient ("leaving useful information on failed studies unpublicised"), but who's to say what line of research is the next cancer cure before the fact.

    Another major factor in health care costs is that many doctors are doing what they went to school for, and I don't mean practice medicine. Also capitalism at work. Read:
    www.newyorker.com/repo...
    Jul 02 14:56 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
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