An Analysis of Health Care Costs and Proposed Remedies

The Kaiser website has an informative article which breaks down health care costs in the United States. Also included is a section detailing the factors which are driving up the cost of health care. Once you are aware of costs and causes for their increases cost containment proposals can be made and analyzed. This article is an excellent place to start when searching for solutions to America's health care conundrum.

Conspicuously missing from the analysis is tort driven costs. They are hard to quantify because their expression takes the form of excessive diagnostic testing. Still some effort needs to be made to estimate the cost of practicing defensive medicine and the high cost to physicians of liability insurance.