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Health care costs

Posted on September 23, 2008

A responsible piece in the Chicago Tribune talking about costs, which the Presidential candidates are addressing to varying degrees.It touches upon the myth that more medicine equates to better care, and cites the Dartmouth studies challenging that assertion:Researchers from Dartmouth College followed patients after they experienced an acute event, such as a heart attack or a cancer diagnosis. Some of their subjects saw more specialists and spent more time in hospitals than others, getting what researchers call high-intensity care. The extra care didn't help. In fact, the patients in higher-...

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