| Then add to the inflated pricing the health care industry's lavish advertising campaigns and the media's hype on new technologies, and we have a formula for the hyperutilization of expensive services.
What about "entitlement chutzpah," the rationale behind the alleged overutilization and abuse of the system carried out by people who show up at ungodly hours at the ER? The people who demand care for trivial problems because they have Medicaid, and that covers all the charges, so why should they care? So goes the refrain from the docs who complain. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  You should also be aware of some general trends in the medical profession and the health care industry that have a great deal of influence on quality of care.
One of these trends is rather troubling: surgeons are becoming increasingly competitive, angling for patients and procedures to fill up their schedules. The reason is that we have simply created too many surgeons for the general populace, and they have not been allocated on any rational basis to different parts of the country where they might be needed. |
Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
See book keywords and concepts | | Unlike most other people you'll meet in the health care industry, I have no vested interests — other than giving you the best health advice and medical information I can find.
That's my pledge. That's what I must do to keep earning a living.
Very Good News
The good news, as you'll see after reading this manual, is that while at one time you were at the mercy of doctors and the pharmaceutical companies, that time is past if you have access to the sources of information and alternative health care products that I've given you in this publication. |
J.D. Kleinke
See book keywords and concepts |  Among the many paradoxes of the health care industry, none has been more perplexing than the one affecting the law of inpatient supply and demand, as played out in the Community General Hospitals across the country. Under the faulty market economics of health care, the greater the supply of hospital beds, the higher the total hospital bill for the community. This inversion of normal market functioning is based on perverse collective clinical behavior observed for years across the industry: hospital bed supply drives demand, not the other way around (Starr, 1982). |
Leo Galland
See book keywords and concepts |  The expansion of the health care industry that followed World War II, supported largely by federal grants, had as its primary goal an increase in the number of hospital beds and the affiliation of those beds with research institutions. Other approaches to health care expansion (e.g., development of community-based clinics or preventive health care programs) were passed over.
The growth of expensive, hospital-based medical care attracted commercial indemnity insurance companies. |
J.D. Kleinke
See book keywords and concepts | | Businesses like HCIA and M&R got started because for years nobody in health care had a clue how to measure some of the most basic things. The health care industry is uniquely antiquated in its lack of empirical self-knowledge. We still do not know with any certainty something as simple as the average pay for physicians by specialty. Or which type of hospital provides more charity care, for-profits or not-for-profits. Or what the real medical loss ratio is for most MCOs. In health care, two answers to the same question, often using nearly identical data, never agree. | | Thus it positioned itself as the future Microsoft of a consolidating, integrating health care industry.
In 1998, HBOC sold itself to drug distributor McKesson a few short months before its sprawling business imploded, driving McKesson's stock from a historic high of $95 at the time of the acquisition to a fifty-two-week low of $19, before the damage was fully written off by Wall Street (King, 1999b). The company's fundamental problem was a disconnect between what works in a PowerPoint presentation and what works in a U.S. health care organization. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  Patricia Arthur, for instance, believes that the extraordinary cost of health care is due largely to a lack of fair competition in the health care industry. She says, "The nation is headed toward a $1.4 trillion annual health care budget. Each person in the country will be expending more than $3,900 per year on health care costs. Chiropractic is a low-cost substitute for certain segments of medical care. That is the result of a monopoly in the health care field centered around the AMA."
Another plaintiff, Dr. Chester A. |
Elaine Feuer
See book keywords and concepts |  In 1993 the American health care industry generated more than $942.5 billion in expenditures and employed more than 10 million people? million nurses, 650,000 doctors, and 150,000 dentists. The industry supported 126 medical schools, approximately 6,600 hospi-
13 See Appendix A ?The Benefits of Nutrition" —for detailed information on the U.S. Health Care System and its antipathy towards nutrition. tals, 1,100 health insurance companies and 25,600 nursing care facilities. |
Leo Galland
See book keywords and concepts | | Ethicists, educators, statisticians, psychologists, and anthropologists analyzed the health care industry from novel points of view, drawn from expertise intrinsic to their own disciplines. They chastised the medical profession for training too many specialists and for failing to recognize that patients are not just the bearers of diseases, but individuals who become sick within a social, cultural, and demographic context.
Stronger currents opposed and virtually nullified the changes. |
J.D. Kleinke
See book keywords and concepts | | Because the health care industry is not the medical industry, a problem explored in the next chapter. All the energy expended in administrative, policy, and business spheres on health care reform in 1993 was independent from and ignorant of actual medical practice, the same as it is now.
Back in 1993 while the nation's MCOs were gearing up to microman-age everything physicians like Dr. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
See book keywords and concepts |  Healthy People 2010, the U.S. Public Health Service's blueprint of health goals for America in 2010. This blueprint includes universal coverage as a goal as well as a host of accomplishments in prevention.
Our failure to resolve the problem of uninsurance in America reflects our lack of support for prevention. Because the uninsured lack access to primary care and delay their care, they develop more expensive maladies, which, if treated earlier (preventively) could have been managed for a fraction of the cost. |
page 2 of 2 | Next ->
FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.
TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalNews.com/np/index.html
This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.
ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of this NaturalNews Naturalpedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.
|
 |
Refine your search
with Health care industry...
...and Concepts:...and Health care
...and Care
...and Choice
...and Time
...and Services
...and Insurance
...and Plan
...and Economic
...and World
...and Money
...and Objects:...and Industry
...and People
...and Hospital
...and Company
...and Companies
...and Market
...and Data
...and Bill
...and Plant
...and Office
...and Key Health Concepts:...and Health
...and Prevention
...and Drugs
...and Medicine
...and Drug
...and Treatment
...and Pharmaceutical industry
...and Medication
...and Exercise
...and Products
...and Organizations:...and Medicare
...and Hospitals
...and Congress
...and Pharmaceutical companies
...and Government
...and Drug companies
...and Fda
...and Corporations
...and Establishment
...and Organizations
...and Adjectives:...and New
...and Medical
...and American
...and Federal
...and Little
...and Real
...and Whole
...and Corporate
...and Free
...and Paid
...and Who:...and Americans
...and Doctors
...and Patients
...and Patient
...and Physicians
...and Child
...and Physician
...and Human
...and Babies
...and Surgeon
...and Where:...and America
...and Washington
...and California
...and New york
...and Massachusetts
...and Canada
...and Chicago
...and Harvard
...and United states
...and Los angeles
...and Actions:...and Making
...and Giving
...and Growth
...and Working
...and Smoking
...and Read
...and Growing
...and Play
...and Rid
...and Talking
|
Related Concepts:
Health care
Health
Industry
Care
Medicare
Hospitals
People
America
New
Americans
Choice
Time
Medical
Services
Doctors
Patients
Insurance
Hospital
Medicaid
Hmos
Company
Plan
Companies
Economic
World
American
Market
Congress
Federal
Patient
Washington
Physicians
Money
National health
Health insurance
Prevention
Data
Costs
Little
Drugs
Media
Real
Bill
Medicine
Tobacco
Scully
Cost
Health care system
Pharmaceutical companies
Program
Business
Making
Frist
Benefits
Investors
Work
Drug
Prescription drug
Whole
Spirit
Interest
Risk
Lobbying
Improve
Heart
Government
Free
Cancer
Corporate
Advertising
Tobacco industry
Paid
Community
Major
Prescriptions
Office
Public
Attention
Trade
Plant
Managed care
Increase
Mistakes
Wall street
Produce
Growth
California
Giving
Changes
Insurance industry
Federal government
Top
Period
House
Working
Technology
Smoking
Profits
Solutions
Systems
|
Email this page to a friend
