Interesting chart on how to improve the U.S. healthcare system: Click to Enlarge Source: Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
The U.S. spends the highest amount per capita on healthcare and gets the lowest value for it. While some portion of the total money spent goes to unnecessary “defensive” medical procedures performed by doctors and other healthcare providers a large portion of the funds spent is actually wasted on paperwork. In fact, the healthcare industry …
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The healthcare industry in the U.S. is dominated by a few large companies.Private health insurance firms’ direct written premium totaled $395 billion in 2010. With additional health premiums written by life and other insurers, the total health premiums amounted to $560 billion according to SNL Financial. The number of people with no health insurance increased from 46.3 million in 2008 to 50.7 million …
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The healthcare system in the US is a mess when compared with most developed countries. Some may question whether the healthcare system is even a “system” since the system is made of a hodgepodge of actors such as thousands of healthcare companies, regulators, medical providers, billing firms, pharmaceutical firms and many others. As a result …
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Healthcare stocks are generally considered as defensive stocks. So investors looking for a place to hide in the current volatile equity markets can consider this sector. In this post let us take a quick look at some of the foreign healthcare equipment makers and service providers traded on the U.S. markets. The universe of foreign …