Monday, April 26, 2010

Prices

The main reason that the U.S. spends so much money on health care is prices....meaning how much is paid per unit of care. Here is an interesting article about medical tourism. Good old fashioned shopping won't work for some types of care, but for others it could. It will be interesting to see if the trend toward medical tourism increases, and whether providers (mostly hospitals and health systems) have to began to respond to the competition.

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