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The Best Health Care Goes Only So Far November 4, 2001 - 10:21 AM by Dr. Gary Farr | Category:
Treating Back Pain |
Newsweek, August 27, 2001 from the pen of George Lundberg, M.D. Lundberg is the editor in chief of Medscape and a co-author of Severed Trust: Why American Medicine Hasn’t Been Fixed.
A few quotes and a bit of data from Lundberg are very illustrative, for example:
- In 1950, the United States spent $12.7 billion or 4.4% of its gross national product (GNP) on health care, but in 2002, we will spend a whopping $1.5 trillion ofr14% of the GNP on health care.
- "…as medical consumers we treat death as a problem to be solved."
- "Physicians--frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope of the patient--too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified."
- "…people in Japan and Sweden, countries that spend far less on health care, have achieved longer and healthier lives than we have."
- "As a nation, we may be overfunding the quest for unlikely cures."
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