Health care in US ailing, claims consumer group
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AMERICANS have been pouring greater and greater portions of the their salaries into health care over the past few years. And what makes most employees sick is that they are getting less and less for their money.
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It has been a summer of dire warning about eroding health care, leading doomfully toward a health summit in September. This is not new. For a decade, virtually the entire political class and opinion elites have said our health care is not ...
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ATLANTA - A new study has found that 15 medical conditions accounted for about half of the US$200 billion (S$342 billion) rise in US health spending from 1987 to 2000.
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As insurers, employers and average Americans grapple with skyrocketing health care bills, a study being published today has found that a small number of illnesses -- many of them preventable
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America is "very concerned" about healthcare in retirement. That's okay with us.
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About half of adults in middle-income families reported serious problems in paying for their health care while even those in more affluent circumstances said they had troubles with medical bills, a new survey found.
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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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In the past four years, Americans have spent a growing portion of their paychecks on health care and for the most part gotten less for their money, according to government figures and several independent studies.
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Half of all U.S. bankruptcies are caused by soaring medical bills and most people sent into debt by illness are middle-class workers with health insurance, researchers said on Wednesday.
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For some, they&#39;re an innovative and necessary reform for the ailing health care industry. For others, they&#39;re potentially ruinous for Americansâ health care coverage.
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About half of all US patients receive inadequate health care, the private National Committee for Quality Assurance said in its annual report released Wednesday.
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The quality of health care in the United States is steadily improving, with more patients getting recommended treatments, but there are a few notable gaps -- and costs are skyrocketing, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans file for bankruptcy each year because of medical bills - even though they have health insurance, according to a new study.
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Stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care is presented in a new study.
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A small but growing number of American families beset by major medical problems are learning the hard way that simply having health insurance is sometimes not enough.
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More Americans than ever before have no health care insurance, 45 million at last count. Five million of these have lost health care coverage in the past four years.
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Five years after the release of a landmark report revealing the human toll that medical errors exact at US hospitals, Americans do not believe the nation&#39;s quality of health care has improved, a new survey finds.