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health care costs stories: 106 news summaries

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(AP) - The health-care costs of Alzheimer’s patients are more than triple those of other older people, and that doesn’t include billions of hours of unpaid care from family members, a new report suggests. Compared with other people aged 65 and older, those with the mind-destroying disease are much more... More »

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health care costs • Alzheimers Association • Alzheimer's Disease

Mass. Seeks New Way to Pay for Health Plan

Most insured state
in nation burdened
by priciest care

Mar 16, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three years ago, Massachusetts politicians began what may be the gutsiest health care experiment the country has ever seen, bringing near-universal coverage to the state in record time. There’s just one problem: they put off any attempt to control costs, the New York Times reports. Massachusetts’ health care is... More »

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Mitt Romney • health care costs • health insurance • Massachusetts • universal health care • Deval Patrick

Prez Won't
Fight Tax on
Health Benefits

Plan echoes McCain proposal slammed by campaigning Obama

Mar 15, 09 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite attacking John McCain for the idea on the campaign trail, President Obama will not oppose taxing some worker health benefits to fund health care reform, reports the New York Times reports. On the stump, Obama called a similar plan “the largest middle-class tax increase in history.” While... More »

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John McCain • health care costs • employer • health care reform • Obama administration • taxation • President Obama

 Report: US Gets 
 Less Health for More $$$ 

Other nations in better health despite spending less

Mar 12, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(AP) - If the global economy were a 100-yard dash, the US would start 23 yards behind its competitors because its health care costs too much—about $2.4 trillion a year—and delivers too little, says a report out today. The authors and leading CEOs say the US funnels away resources... More »

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health care costs • insurance companies • United States • universal health care • health care reform • President Obama

 White House 
 Health Forum 
 Convenes Today 

Forum will give the floor to ranging viewpoints

Mar 5, 09 8:17 AM CST
(AP) - President Barack Obama has invited to the White House more than 120 people with wide-ranging views on how to fix the US health-care system, one that still leaves millions uninsured despite being the world's costliest. The group of doctors, patients, business owners, and insurers is to gather for a forum... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health care costs • White House • forum • overhaul • Obama administration • Bill Maher Grid

Stimulus Devotes $1B to Weighing Medical Treatments

Comparing effectiveness will 'save money and lives'

Feb 16, 09 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The stimulus bill sinks $1.1 billion into the first major government comparison of different medical treatments, the New York Times reports. The provision is a reaction to concerns that treatments are being prescribed without solid evidence to back their usefulness and cost-effectiveness. But some say such studies would mean... More »

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health care • Congress • health care costs • medical treatment • Pete Stark • economic stimulus package • Tom Daschle • health research

College Students Pay Twice for Health Insurance

Parents complain of hidden costs for students who already have insurance

Feb 6, 09 7:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Many parents of college students across America are paying double for their children's health insurance, an NPR investigation finds. Students are usually required to show proof of health insurance for admission, but then often find they can't use that insurance at college clinics. Parents complain that colleges automatically charge for... More »

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health care • health care costs • health insurance • college • college tuition • colleges and universities

 Seeking Surgery 
 at 80? You're Not Alone 

Operations on elderly patients raise questions about aggressive treatments

Jan 18, 09 7:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Folks over 80 are increasingly going under the knife despite critics who say it's unethical or financially perilous, the Sacramento Bee reports. New medical technology has persuaded doctors to violate tradition and perform operations like cancer and open-heart surgery on octogenarians. But one doctor has sparked controversy by saying patients... More »

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health care • health care costs • elderly • surgery • Medicare

OPINION

US on 'Collision Course'
With Health Care Costs


Jan 10, 09 5:20 PM CST
(Newser) - No matter the outcome of America's upcoming health care debates, costs are going to keep rising—and that’s a sign of success, David Brown writes in the Washington Post. Medical treatments are improving for dozens of ailments, and so far Americans are willing to pay. But "... More »

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health care costs

Recession-Battered States Slash Medicaid

Governments lower payments, cut add-ons to health program

Dec 26, 08 7:14 AM CST
(Newser) - As states across the country struggle to cope with staggering budget shortfalls, 19 of them have cut back on Medicaid, reports the Washington Post. The states, along with DC, are lowering payments to hospitals and nursing homes, ending coverage for less common treatments, and booting some citizens out of the... More »

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health care • health care costs • Medicaid • recession • state governments • Obama administration

Laid-Off Workers Stuck With Mega-Medical Bills

Abrupt loss of coverage leaves massive bills behind

Dec 6, 08 9:19 AM CST
(Newser) - As firms collapse and abruptly cut off insurance, some laid-off workers face staggering medical bills without any clear way to pay for them, the Wall Street Journal reports. In many cases, workers rush to take care of medical needs upon hearing their employers are going under, only to find those... More »

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health care • health care costs • health insurance • layoffs • financial crisis

Money or Your Life? Brits Weigh Drug Cost Vs. Benefit

With its restrictions forcing companies to lower prices, some see 'workable paradigm' for US

Dec 3, 08 11:38 AM CST
(Newser) - A British government institute that approves drugs based on cost-benefit analysis is coming under fire at home even as other countries are seeing it as a model for bringing down costs, the New York Times reports. Though the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence often balks at expensive life-prolonging... More »

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health care costs • drug companies • universal health care • prescription drugs • cancer treatment • Britain • cost-benefit analysis

US Health Care Bleeds $1T, But Can Be Saved

Preventative model could save taxpayers billions

Nov 29, 08 5:35 PM CST
(Newser) - What America needs is another preemptive strike, executives say—in the world of health care. As Barack Obama gears up to reform the industry, several health care leaders say that up to half of the nation's $2.3 trillion health budget is wasted. In a broad consensus, they call for... More »

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health care • health care costs • health care industry • America • health care reform • President Obama

Chronically Ill Worse Off in US Than Elsewhere: Study

Health costs, medical errors scare more than in other rich nations

Nov 13, 08 10:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Chronically ill Americans are more likely to forgo medical care because of high costs or bad experiences than counterparts in a number of other rich nations, a study finds. Researchers interviewed 7,500 adults with conditions like cancer, arthritis, depression, and diabetes, and the Americans led the complaints. Dutch patients... More »

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medicine • health care • health care costs • Europe • Netherlands • universal health care • health care reform • American • doctors

OPINION

 Kennedy: Fix Health Care Now 

Don't let economic crisis blind us to broken system

Nov 9, 08 9:16 AM CST
(Newser) - The economy may be gasping, but that doesn’t give us a prescription to neglect health care, Ted Kennedy writes. “We must forge ahead with this urgent priority. The system is broken,” he writes in a Washington Post op-ed. The liberal lion points to recent signs that reform... More »

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health care • health care costs • Ted Kennedy • health care reform • economy • President Obama

Docs Stop Taking Insurance, Offer 'Boutique' Care

More doctors offer "boutique" care to make ends meet, provide better service

Oct 26, 08 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Increasing numbers of doctors are bagging the insurance model to offer much better service to fewer patients, at a much higher cost, the Baltimore Sun reports. Many doctors are struggling to pay their own bills, and the quality of service they offer patients is suffering. But such “boutique” care... More »

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medicine • health care costs • health insurance

OPINION

Health Care Should Be More Like Baseball

We need better statistics to make sound judgments

Oct 24, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - If the US health care industry were a baseball team, it’d be “a hidebound, tradition-based ball club that chases after aging sluggers,” write Billy Beane, John Kerry, and Newt Gingrich in the New York Times. The US spends egregiously on health care but gets little... More »

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health care • health care costs • Newt Gingrich • Oakland Athletics • John Kerry • sabermetrics • health care reform • baseball • Billy Beane

C-Sections, Wary Docs
Push Birth Costs Up

Report is critical of high-tech methods, urges natural ones

Oct 8, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spending on childbirth—the country's No. 1 reason for hospitalization—is on the rise, and much of it is due to unnecessary tests and procedures, USA Today reports. A new study critical of the system found that $2.5 billion is spent annually on needless high-tech C-sections, which cost... More »

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health care costs • motherhood • infant • childbirth • hospitalization • health study • obstetrician-gynecologists • cesarean section

Teen Abortion Rate Drops; Not So With Adults

Economic factors put 20-somethings at risk, study finds

Sep 23, 08 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - US teenagers are having fewer abortions than ever before, but their adult counterparts can’t say the same, Newsweek reports. According to a new, nonpartisan study, teen abortions have fallen almost 30% over the past 30 years, as millions of dollars were pumped into sex-education programs. But women aged 20-29... More »

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abortion • health care costs • sex education • birth control • demographics

 US Health Costs 
 to Rise 5.7% in '09 

Insurance costs go up for 4th straight year

Sep 4, 08 1:45 PM CDT
(AP) - Get ready for another increase in co-pays and deductibles. A survey being released today found that 59% of employers intend to keep down rising health care costs by sharing them with workers. Costs will go up by an average 5.7% for both parties next year, rising faster than inflation... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • employers • health insurance premiums • Mercer study

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