Report uncovers care spending gap
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A report says some councils spend five times as much as others on providing free personal care for the elderly.
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Shrinking budgets and escalating costs this year exacerbated many of the county&#39;s health- care problems, which included the first human case of West Nile virus and the fact that prescription medications are increasingly expensive for many seniors.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs used prewar data to estimate the cost of caring for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, a mistake that contributed to a $3 billion budget shortfall since 2005, government investigators say.
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The US National Institutes of Health invests $28bn annually in research. European spending is lower, although the European Union is closing the gap, helped by a shortsighted American policy of &quot;flatlining&quot; many scientific research budgets. (Perhaps this is because scientists have an annoying tendency to discuss things that conflict with the Bush administration&#39;s view of reality, such as global warming, evolution, the insufficiency of the New Orleans levee system and the medical potential of stem cells.)
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A new study presents stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care.
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Quality not quantity should be the federal governmentÂs guide in setting payments to health care providers, said a report.
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Most people would contribute towards the costs of long-term care but want a fairer system, a report shows.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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The annual report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information on health spending shows that health spending in the country is expected to reach $130.3 billion in 2004, a 5.9% increase over last year and the lowest annual increase in the last seven
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The dramatic increase in health-care spending in the United States since 1960 is a major reason that Americans are living longer, making the world's most expensive health-care system a good value despite its high costs, according to an academic study being released today.
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Every year, without fail, spending for services covered by private health insurance increases. Sometimes health care spending grows slowly, as it did in the mid-1990s during the managed-care boom.
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Free personal and nursing care appears to be costing much more than expected, according to executive figures.
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Privately insured, low-income workers with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma are being financially squeezed as employers shift the burden of higher health care costs to employees, a new study found.    The number of such individuals spending more than 5 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical costs soared 48 percent to 2.2 million people from 2001 to 2003, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Health System Change...
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OTTAWAâPatients&#39; waiting times and runaway health-care costs could both be reduced by forcing hospitals to compete for government health-care funding, says the latest report on Canada&#39;s medicare system.
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Respiratory ailments, mental trauma and other problems that arose after the Sept. 11 attacks are costing the U.S. health care system $393 million per year, according to an analysis that city officials released Tuesday.
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NHS underspent by Â£510m last year as result of stringent cuts imposed by health secretary.
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A detailed breakdown of NHS spending shows money is reaching key health priority, the government says.