Economic Scene: Poor U.S. Scores in Health Care DonÂt Measure Nobels and Innovation
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The American health care system, high expenditures and all, is driving innovation for the entire world.
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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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MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Many Americans are not taking all their medicines because they can't afford them, and most aren't telling their doctors about it, new research shows.
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Seeing low fees for family doctors as a weak link in the nationâs health care system, some big employers and health insurers are seeking new ways to pay doctors to reward high-quality medical care.
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The technological marvels of medicine mean that the insured majority are being treated for ailments that went untreated or undetected years ago.
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This year should mark another year of growth in the United States. That is hardly remarkable. What is remarkable, and perhaps unappreciated, is that growth has become the norm for the American economy.
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Blog: Stanford and Harvard researchers find that electronic records aren't helping to improve outpatient medical 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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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization
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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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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization that works to
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Americans have dominated the annual Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences five years running, and it may not surprise Nobel watchers if the trend continues.
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Some economists say the government can reduce pharmaceutical prices by changing how the nation pays for innovation.
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For most public companies, patents donât pay off, say a couple of researchers who have crunched the numbers.
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Most Americans agree our health insurance system is too expensive and leaves too many without coverage. There isn't much agreement on what to do about it.
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While Nobel Prizes are given for past performance, other types of inducement prizes are intended to spur innovation. Do they do the job?
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While treatments have multiplied, the operations and processes for delivering those medicines haven't kept pace, slowing health improvement in developing and developed countries. Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.