Politicization of US health care preventing real changes to out-of-control system, researchers suggest
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Over the last decade, the biggest driver of the high health care costs in the United States has been neither the aging of the population nor the large numbers of tests and treatments being prescribed. Rather, it is the politicization of health care, and the increasing prices of drugs, medical devices and hospital costs.