OpEdNews - Quicklink: Administrative Waste Consumes 31 Percent of Health Spending

Tag(s): Health Care Costs; Health Care Establishment; Health Insurance; Health Insurance Lobby; Subsidy; Waste
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Administrative Waste Consumes 31 Percent of Health Spending

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A definitive study of the administrative costs of the U.S. health system in the August 21, 2003 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. After analyzing the costs of insurers, employers, doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and home-care agencies in both the U.S. and Canada, they found that administration consumes 31.0 percent of U.S. health spending. $350 billion per year savings is possible.

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We can't have Socialism by Dennis Kaiser on Friday, May 29, 2009 at 6:16:42 AM

Thanks! by John Sanchez Jr. on Friday, May 29, 2009 at 1:59:48 PM

Every dollar of Health Insurance is Overhead by Philip Pease on Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 11:08:04 AM