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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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