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The High Cost of Care

The High Cost of Care
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Demystifying Health Care Spending

What are the Biggest Drivers of Cost in Health Care?

What are the Biggest Drivers of Cost in Health Care?

This paper by the Bipartisan Policy Center explores the many complex and multifaceted factors that are driving health care spending in the U.S.

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Physician Commentary

  • Health Care Costs Are Killing Us

    Health Care Costs Are Killing Us

    RWJF Clinical Scholar and Health Policy Fellow Arthur Kellermann argues that physicians need to consider the benefit of each prospective intervention—and forego those which offer little benefit.

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The Cost Issue

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How Much Does Health Care Really Cost?

While there is no shortage of data on health care spending at the national and health plan levels, consumers, doctors and most people who work in hospitals or clinics don’t really know the cost of services.

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Consumers' Perspective

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Consumers Are Confused About Costs

Researchers found focus group participants aware of rising health care costs but confused and frustrated by what to do about it.

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Research Findings

Problems Paying Medical Bills

More than 1 in 5 Americans reported problems paying medical bills in 2010—about the same as in 2007, which is surprising, given the economy and rising health care costs.

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A Physician's Perspective

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Improving Medical Education to Focus on Delivering Value to Patients

Mitesh Patel, MD, MBA, a RWJF Clinical Scholar, argues that as health care costs continue to rise, physicians must look for ways to reduce unnecessary spending while continuing to provide high-quality care.

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Most Requested

Blog Posts

When Doctors Compete, Everyone Wins

The cost of medical care should be as clear as the cost of groceries, says OkCopay founder and PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Touré McClus...

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Feature

RWJF DataHub

The RWJF DataHub tracks state-level data, and allows visitors to customize and visualize facts and figures.

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Blog Posts

Dementia’s Growing Cost to Caregivers

A recent RAND study offers some of the most comprehensive and credible estimates to date of the monetary costs of dementia in the United Sta...

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Blog Posts

‘Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.’

As we pause to remember the rich contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we should also reflect on how his legacy can be used to elimi...

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Blog Posts

Spending Money to Save Money in Health Care

Investing in programs that prevent chronic diseases would ultimately decrease the costly long-term expenditures driven by those diseases, As...

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Journal Article

Financial Impact of Community-Based Dental Education

This article on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Dental Pipeline program, presents evidence that community-based dental education (CBDE)...

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Journal Article

Medicare's Future

This paper proposes a national initiative for Medicare patients with cancer. New legislative authority will be needed for comparative effect...

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Journal Article

Designing High-Cost Medicine

Inspired by social medicine, some progressive U.S. health reforms have paradoxically reinforced a business model of high-cost medical delive...

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Issue Brief

More Nonelderly Americans Face Problems Affording Prescription Drugs

More children and working-age Americans are going without prescription drugs because of cost concerns, according to a new national study by ...

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Issue Brief

Access to Prescription Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries

Despite the introduction of a Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit in January 2006, roughly the same proportion of elderly Medicare...

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Report

Health Insurance Fraud

An Overview

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Issue Brief

Premium Support in Medicare

The nation's fiscal crisis has renewed the focus on structural reform. Can a market-oriented solution cut costs and improve care?

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