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A healthy investment.(Letter to the Editor)
The United States spends more per capita on medical care than any other industrialized nation. We spend two and a half times more than Great Britain; and we spend 13 percent of our GDP on health care, compared with the 8 percent spent by European countries--all for roughly the same amount of physician care and hospital services. American spending on drugs? $556 per person, versus $262 in Europe. Yet we still rank 19th or 20th in overall health: We die younger; we are sicker here than in our peer countries; our infant-mortality rate is 50 percent higher.
Given the far greater impact of public-health spending overseas, I wonder where the evidence is behind Stephen Moore's attack on Uncle Sam ("The Week," Dec. 31). It's not from Medicare--this federally funded, completely portable insurance plan spends 98 cents of every dollar on medical care compared with the 80 cents that commercial health plans spend (that's $55 billion plus in extra administration ...
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- Magazine article from: Fairfield County Business Journal KLEIN, ED August 30, 2001 700+ words
Last year, employer-sponsored health benefit costs rose 8.1 percent, more than double the rate of general inflation. This was the third straight year of increases. A survey of more than 3,000 respondents shows that the average cost per employee rose from $4,097 in 1999 to $4,430 in 2000, according
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- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Lemmings, J. Robinson, L. Hoffman, Georgia R. Mangione, E. February 17, 2006 700+ words
...caused by West Nile virus (WNV) was first identified in the United States in August 1999 in the greater New York City area (1,2...WNV disease in humans and 771 deaths were reported in the United States. In 2000, CDC first published guidelines for WNV surveillance...
- Medical-care spending - United States.
- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report August 19, 1994 700+ words
...demographic factors; use of medical care; and medical-care expenditures for hospital...leading cause of death in the United States. However, the influences...corroborate the finding that medical-care payments for injury are the...
- Medical care expenditures attributable to cigarette smoking - United States,...
- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report July 8, 1994 700+ words
...mortality in the United States; however, approximately...000 deaths in the United States are attributed...categories of direct medical-care expenditures...portion of all medical-care costs in the United States. For each of the...
- Remarks by President Bush After a Meeting With Iraqis Receiving Medical Care in...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 25, 2004 700+ words
...PRNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of remarks by President Bush after a meeting with Iraqis receiving medical care in the United States: The Oval Office 10:02 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen...
- United States Receives $1.6 Million Payment to Resolve Civil Allegations of...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 10, 2002 700+ words
...announced today that Fresenius Medical Care North America has paid the United States $1,658,923 to resolve...care fraud at NATIONAL MEDICAL CARE, INC. ("NMC") that...Grace & Co. The United States alleged that it had civil...
- Rivera v. Alvarado.(MEDICAL CARE)(violation of United States Constitution. 8th...
- Magazine article from: Corrections Caselaw Quarterly May 1, 2003 700+ words
...section] 1983 action alleging that corrections officials and doctors at a hospital failed to adequately treat and provide medical care for the prisoner, in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The district court dismissed the action, finding that the complaint...
- A conversation with Koop; Medical opinions? This doc has 'em The former surgeon...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Slovut, Gordon June 20, 1996 700+ words
...the former surgeon general of the United States, was eating recently in a restaurant...their hips. Now, he is touring the United States, still looking more like a Gilbert...future of quality health care in the United States. Here are excerpts from an interview...
