A new report by Goldman Sachs predicts that innovations in medical tech are poised to save the country over $300 billion. Some of the most promising avenues for bringing down costs lie outside the kind of policy tinkering the ACA represents.
“With no new medical discoveries, no new technologies, no payment incentives” hospitals managed to make treatment for heart attacks much more efficient, saving lives. There’s low hanging fruit for the picking in our health care system.
Walgreens is now offering digital visits to doctors in five states. The visits are priced at $49, lower than the typical cost of an in-person doctor’s visit. But obstacles remain to telemedicine’s growth.
Italy’s spending cuts stop short of rationalizing the country’s government. Both the right and the left in advanced countries need a new vision for governance.
As rural hospitals close nationwide, telemedicine is an obvious, and cheap, way to deliver health care to rural populations. But legal barriers are restricting it.
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