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Rising popularity of medical tourism reveals deterioration of U.S. healthcare system Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Thus, you save a fortune by essentially not funding the legal fees, settlements and malpractice insurance costs normally found in a U.S.-based healthcare practice. When you combine these two savings - the paperwork shuffling reduction and the medical malpractice lawsuits - and you get an incredible deal for your dollar. Some people might ask, "What if something goes wrong during the surgery?" Well, here you have the reputation of the hospital and the surgeon at stake. They know that they must offer you outstanding, high-quality service.

Why we should bar smokers from taxpayer-funded health care coverage Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

When people get injured in sports, their injuries are often covered by insurance, and insurance costs are shared by the population at large. So there is a hole in the argument that people only really impact themselves when they engage in dangerous activities. Because when they get hurt, it's everybody else who financially subsidizes their health care costs. But there is a valid point in the libertarian argument: we are supposed to be living in a free society, and in a free society, shouldn't people be trusted to make their own decisions?

The unauthorized history of Coca-Cola (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The consumer foots the bill not only for the product, but also for the doctor, hospital and insurance costs that inevitably appear as a result of consuming this health-harming beverage. I'm just guessing, but for every dollar a person spends on soft drinks, there might be as much as $4 - $5 in long-term costs to society. Not surprisingly, Coca-Cola's "H2No" web pages didn't stay on their site for very long. They were taken down on August 2, 2001 and haven't re-appeared since. Apparently, they no longer want to be known as the "anti-water" company. Because that would be, well, stupid.

Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies James S. Gordon, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Because malpractice insurance costs so much money, physicians charge more for all the work they do. Obstetricians in some states may pay up to $75,000 a year for their premium. The unnecessary tests and procedures they order to "protect" themselves may produce substantial injury—directly, through the harm they may cause, and indirectly, by creating anxiety about findings that may or may not be significant but that still have to be exhaustively investigated. There are other problems as well.

Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H. See book keywords and concepts

These private insurance costs contribute in a major way to the global administrative cost of health care in America—a cost estimated at about 25 percent by Richard Huber, the ex-CEO of Aetna/US Healthcare. Health economist J.D. Kleinke has drawn attention to an even more egregious overhead cost in the private sector: the 50,000 health insurance brokers, or "parasitic middlemen." He estimates they collect commissions that range from 3 to 20 percent of the total cost of insurance plans, adding hundreds of billions of dollars to premium costs.

Hemp Today Ed Rosenthal See book keywords and concepts

Examples of external costs of drug abuse include increased insurance costs, accidents affecting third parties, and drug-induced violence and criminality. In principle these costs must be distinguished from "internal costs" that fall on the user, such as ill-health, reduced personal income, poor achievement, etc. Because users already pay for the latter, there is no sense in making them pay again through a tax.

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