Health Care Costs & Health Outcomes
diminishing returns with increased expenditures
Price & Quantities
Cost Control Strategies
Controlling Price Inflation
health care prices have been rising faster than the rate of inflation
Eliminating Ineffective & Inappropriate Care
reasses standard care to make it more effective
effeciency
Administrative Waste
vastly ineffecient--growing over 30% that of health care industry
Innovation and Cost Savings
Ounces of Prevention
often the preventetive approach costs more in the long run than just treating the diseass
Prioritization and Analysis of Cost Effectiveness
must ballance professional ethics with the overall population and the individual
cost effective decsions must put the saved money into something effective
Conclusion
make better use of the resources we have