Posted by Ruth on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 3:15pm.
Litigation prevention and insurance costs for medical providers.
Expanded use of complex technology to diagnosis and treat disease.
"overhead" costs for developing drugs, including development, testing, field testing, marketing, advertising, and litigation expenses.
Increasing fixed costs for hospital rooms (we used to have large wards).
Insurance costs and profits for Private insurance companies. In some instances, about half of what folks pay insurance companies stays in the company, and never goes to health providers.
These sites may be of help.
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?imID=1&parentID=61&id=358
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Discuss:What_causes_the_increasing_cost_of_health_care
http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/205/Increasing-Cost-Health-Care.html
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