February 22, 2006

THANKS, W:

Analysts: Health Care Costs to Keep Rising (KEVIN FREKING, 2/22/06, The Associated Press)

Meanwhile, drug costs are expected to be lower because of a greater reliance on generics, and because insurers administering the new Medicare drug benefit were able to negotiate steeper discounts than previously anticipated.

The Medicare reform continues to work out even better than optimists predicted.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 22, 2006 11:40 AM
Comments

Health Care requires a lot of bureaucratic virtual paper shuffling and that's very costly. A friend who manages a group of six surgeons in New Haven has nine (9) people just processing insurance forms of one kind or another..

Posted by: erp at February 22, 2006 12:29 PM
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