Correctly Controlling Care Costs (Series)
Submitted by Dr. JG Kaplan on Thu, 2010-01-07 22:11
Must Care Cost So Much?
This mini-series exposes the fundamentals of reform, largely missed in the current debate.
Each article is brief. If you must read the end, first [a la "When Harry Met Sally," Billy Crystal], go right to article #10.
- Wrong Priorities-I.E., Business Over Patient Needs
- Spending Too Little of Insurance Premiums on You and Me
- Inefficiency That Robs Patients of Their Rights
- Healthcare Organizations Who Think They Can Practice Medicine
- The Phenomenon of a Captive Audience
- Access Problems Creates a Flood of Downstream Costs
- Less Costly Trumps Effective
- Callous Disregard for Patients in Their Time of Need
- Failure to Observe the Cardinal Rule of Medicine: First of All, Do No Harm.
- Failure to Observe the Cardinal Rule of Managing Care—Measure and Manage!

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