http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/ Management Improvement focused on Deming, lean thinking, innovation, customer focus, six sigma, etc. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-33150 Many Experts Say Health-Care System Inefficient, Wasteful at Curious Cat Economics Blog Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:37:50 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/#comment-33150 "We're not getting what we pay for," says Denis Cortese, CEO of the Mayo Clinic. "It's just that simple." "Our health-care system is fraught with waste," says Gary Kaplan, chairman of Seattle's cutting-edge Virginia Mason Medical Center... “We’re not getting what we pay for,” says Denis Cortese, CEO of the Mayo Clinic. “It’s just that simple.”
“Our health-care system is fraught with waste,” says Gary Kaplan, chairman of Seattle’s cutting-edge Virginia Mason Medical Center…

]]> http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-32726 Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » New Management Truths Sometimes Started as Heresies Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:45:35 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/#comment-32726 [...] system is broken. But I would say less than 50% understand this, even decades later, even after the situation has deteriorated much further. And certainly little effective effort at improving the health care system has been made. At least [...] [...] system is broken. But I would say less than 50% understand this, even decades later, even after the situation has deteriorated much further. And certainly little effective effort at improving the health care system has been made. At least [...]

]]> http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-32246 Traveling To Avoid USA Health Care Costs at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog Tue, 06 May 2008 14:11:18 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/#comment-32246 "Americans are going overseas for increasingly complex surgeries. In addition, more patients seem willing to accept that quality of care in some foreign hospitals may be the same or higher as that found on U.S. soil, at a fraction of the cost..." “Americans are going overseas for increasingly complex surgeries. In addition, more patients seem willing to accept that quality of care in some foreign hospitals may be the same or higher as that found on U.S. soil, at a fraction of the cost…”

]]> http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-32190 CuriousCat: Overview of 5 Nations Health Care Systems Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:38:53 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/#comment-32190 PBS presents a very nice overview of the heath care systems in Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland in: Sick Around the World... PBS presents a very nice overview of the heath care systems in Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland in: Sick Around the World…

]]> http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-31995 CuriousCat: Drug Price Crisis Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:50:09 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/02/20/usa-spent-21-trillion-on-health-care-in-2006/#comment-31995 "The mounting U.S. drug price crisis can be contained and eventually reversed by separating drug discovery from drug marketing and by establishing a non-profit company to oversee funding for new medicines..." “The mounting U.S. drug price crisis can be contained and eventually reversed by separating drug discovery from drug marketing and by establishing a non-profit company to oversee funding for new medicines…”

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