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posted by martyb on Monday October 08 2018, @06:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-you-think-healthcare-is-expensive,-try-going-without-it dept.

A new analysis by researchers from Brown University and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation has found that nonfatal injuries in the U.S. in the year 2013 cost more than $1.8 trillion.

And nearly all injures are preventable, said Dr. Mark Zonfrillo, an associate professor at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital.

The study, led by Zonfrillo, found that in 2013 about one in 10 individuals in the U.S. was treated for an injury at a hospital, resulting in an annual cost of $1.853 trillion. The findings were published on Monday, Oct. 8, in the journal Injury Epidemiology.

Annual price tag for non-fatal injuries in the US tops $1.8 trillion

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @01:29AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @01:29AM (#746234)

    Another tactic is to make underfunded promises, letting people die on a waiting list, of course with some people jumping the queue because some animals are more equal than others.

    Victors Care brings class-based medical care to University of Michigan hospital [wsws.org]:

    ...[Victors Care] is a system of primary care aimed entirely at servicing the rich and upper middle class. The foundation of Victors Care is that it grants easier and faster access to physicians, as well as comprehensive preventive care, for those who can afford to pay an additional $3,600 per year out of pocket.

    “I hear from nurses in our primary care clinics that it takes two weeks to make an appointment with a primary care doctor,” Ambulatory Care nurse Desiree Conyers told the Michigan Daily in July. “And good luck making an appointment with a specialist. That can take even longer. Some patients who cannot afford Victors Care have even been forced to switch doctors because their former physician now only serves those who can pay for exclusive care.”

    ...The $3,600-a-year out-of-pocket fee is an impossible cost for the vast majority of men, women and children in the United States, a country where 70 percent of the population has less than $1,000 in savings.

    The University of Michigan program was preceded by concierge services that were already up-and-running at several university hospital systems around the country, including Stanford, Duke, Harvard, Tufts, and the University of North Carolina. Other notable hospital systems to introduce the system include the Mayo Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital—the latter a hospital originally founded specifically to service the poor, and now charges $6,000 a year out of pocket for on-call physician and nurse services for the wealthy.

    After all, it is only fair that those who can pay more, if they like their doctor, can keep their doctor. /s

  • (Score: 1) by ChrisMaple on Wednesday October 10 2018, @01:26AM

    by ChrisMaple (6964) on Wednesday October 10 2018, @01:26AM (#746749)

    $200/month for cable TV. $100 month for smartphone service. That's $3600/year.