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In a posting in FIRE and Money dixonge mentioned an article in The New Yorker about medical care costs. I had recently heard an interview with the author on NPR's Fresh Air that got me interested enough to read the article. The article makes an interesting health care cost comparision between El Paso and McAllen, Texas. Medicare spends twice as much per patient in McAllen as it does in El Paso, with indications that care in in El Paso is at least as good as it is in McAllen.
And the article says, "Most Americans would be delighted to have the quality of care found in places like Rochester, Minnesota, or Seattle, Washington, or Durham, North Carolina—all of which have world-class hospitals and costs that fall below the national average. If we brought the cost curve in the expensive places down to their level, Medicare’s problems (indeed, almost all the federal government’s budget problems for the next fifty years) would be solved."
The article also talks about some interesting work the medical community in Grand Junction, Colorado has done to improve care and reduce costs.
Here's a link to The New Yorker article.
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And the article says, "Most Americans would be delighted to have the quality of care found in places like Rochester, Minnesota, or Seattle, Washington, or Durham, North Carolina—all of which have world-class hospitals and costs that fall below the national average. If we brought the cost curve in the expensive places down to their level, Medicare’s problems (indeed, almost all the federal government’s budget problems for the next fifty years) would be solved."
The article also talks about some interesting work the medical community in Grand Junction, Colorado has done to improve care and reduce costs.
Here's a link to The New Yorker article.
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