Less Spending Can Mean Better Care response

I learned that there were a lot of unnecessary costs in the pharmaceutical industry. The delivery of the prescription drugs is a big part of those cost that could be fixed. I also learned that money isn't everything when it come to a hospital and the kind of care they give you. Some of the smaller hospitals that can't and don't spend a lot of money give better care than the big spending 'top dog' hospitals. The stimulus package could help with a lot of health care costs. With buying the new electronic health records the hospitals can keep better records of there patients.

Less Spending Can Mean Better Care

-we need to look our system that rewards the growth and the unnecessary care
- there are huge variations in the spending of prescription drugs
- we can eliminate the unnecessary costs that are use to make the drugs, and the money that is used in the delivery
-better spending regions to give better care.
- in ten years of research they found that the lower spending health providers had better health outcomes
-some of the spending that is happening is people being put in the hospital when it could have been prevented with better primary care
-unnecessary care can be bad for you because hospitals aren't good places to be if you don't need to be there
-"...having more physicians involved in your care makes it harder to know who is responsible: too many cooks can spoil the soup."
-the new stimulus package will help with the buying of new electronic records for health care, preventative care, and new research programs
- most providers in a region will get the new electronic health records
- president Obama didn't say anything about helping with the delivery system, or organize payment plans
-organized payment plans would help with lowering the cost, but keeping it high quality