I'm puzzled. Help me out.

[Woodznutz]

This article poses the income received by the medical industry as costs. What does this even mean?

Fast Facts: Health and Economic Costs of Chronic Conditions

The economic impact of chronic diseases in terms of health care costs and lost productivity

www.cdc.gov

 

[Anathema]

What the article suggests is that the vast majority of medical expenses/spending in the United States are due to preventable or at least reducible chronic conditions.

What the article fails to include is any actual plan or suggestions on how to reduce the chronic diseases or the cost of fighting them.

 

[Woodznutz]

What the article suggests is that the vast majority of medical expenses/spending in the United States are due to preventable or at least reducible chronic conditions.

What the article fails to include is any actual plan or suggestions on how to reduce the chronic diseases or the cost of fighting them.

What the article suggests is that the vast majority of medical expenses/spending in the United States are due to preventable or at least reducible chronic conditions.

The article suggests that medical costs have no benefit even though those costs translate to high pay for the medical profession.

What the article fails to include is any actual plan or suggestions on how to reduce the chronic diseases or the cost of fighting them.

They never do. Why kill the goose.

 

[Woodznutz]

I think their rationale is that if people are so thoughtless about their health, they are happy to take their money.

 

[1srelluc]

The medical system that owns the local hospital leased a bunch of space to a large family practice when it opened.....The bean counters have now decided to move them out to the old hospital and open that floor to beds.

Now I don't know how much they plan to make on those beds but my Doc told me they cleared $150.00 on each patient the family practice saw per visit.

I sort of welcome it as you currently have to walk a country mile to get to the offices at the new hospital.