... money to cover their disabled children's health-care costs.
The study found families in Georgia fared ... spent almost $1,100 annually to care for its disabled children. A family in Louisiana earning ...
... pre-tax cigarette sales.
These findings on cost savings are important, say the authors, because so ... tobacco control programs can reduce health care costs, providing further justification for funding ...
The European Union accused drug companies of adding billions of dollars to health care costs by delaying or blocking the sale of less-expensive generic medicines.
... illness among older people, the cumulative health impact of long-term substance abuse, ... six states showed that medical care and behavioral health care costs were higher with those who abused drugs and ...
... 2003, has already reduced crippling health care costs among poorer households, according to an evaluation ... 2003, Seguro Popular was developed to provide health care to 50 million Mexicans who otherwise ...
The Quebec government has tabled new legislation that if passed would allow the province to seek damages from cigarette manufacturers for health care costs related to tobacco illnesses.
... economic expansion, yet rising health care costs still eroded the value of employer- ... colleagues found that about 57 percent was attributable to higher cost sharing for medical services and 43 percent ...
... identifies and analyzes the key drivers of health care costs was released today by the American College ... policy that addresses both the drivers of health care costs and options for controlling them," Dr ...
Bolstering the performance of the health care system is one of the biggest challenges facing the country, the Federal Reserve chairman said Monday.
... released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' deductibles, copays or out- ...
... are bad when an insurance company tries to fix the health care system.
WellPoint Inc. is funding ... Foundation to devise solutions that improve health care cost and quality. Although the actual award ...
... decisions and greater public awareness of health care costs; a system structured so that nearly ... any applicant presenting a voucher regardless of health status. Risk adjustment, possibly with a backup ...
... value schedule) to increase payments for primary care.
Respondents voiced strong support for realigning ... equipment as strategies to reduce the growth of health care costs.
Nearly three of five (57 ...
Even without the recent economic upheaval, non-elderly Americans in lower-middle-income families would be headed for a squeeze in health care costs.
... drive toward containing health care costs could have the unintended consequence of reducing physician productivity ... impairing quality and perhaps even increasing costs, two Beth Israel Deaconess Medical ...
