Unnecessary health care
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title:
Unnecessary health care
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Unnecessary health care is health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate.
In the United States, where health care costs are the highest as a percentage of GDP, overuse was the predominant factor in its expense, accounting for about a third of its health care spending in 2012. Factors that drive overuse include paying health professionals more to do more (fee-for-service), defensive medicine to protect against litigiousness, and insulation from price sensitivity in instanc
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Health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnecessary_health_care
date created:
2011-06-29T22:33:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T02:26:30Z
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