Medical Costs

policy issues, reforming hc

Healthcare Associated Infections: What’s an Infographic Got To Do With It?

David Harlow | July 10, 2011

The good people at GE and JESS3 have come up with an HAI infographic. It’s pretty, and it conveys the horrible information that many of us already know — healthcare associated infections kill about 100,000 people a year, and add $35 billion a year to our collective health care bill (here in the US of [...]

How to Rein in Medical Costs

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | August 12, 2009

You know you’re going to get a pretty interesting debate about healthcare costs when George Lundberg offers his advice on how to control health care costs right now. A well thought-out piece and one deserving of everyone’s time to read it. Costs can be reigned in, if only we had the willpower to do it.