U.S. Health Care Statistics

November 15, 2013

In 2011, U.S. health care employed 15.7% of the U.S. workforce (1 in 25 health care employees is a physician); U.S. health care expenditures were $2.7 trillion; and, there were approximately 800,000 physicians and 2,700,000 nurses in the U.S.  From 1980 to 2011, U.S. health care expenditur[...]

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Who Pays For And Receives Health Care In the United States?

July 10, 2012

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding as constitutional the federal health care overhaul law frequently referred to as “Obamacare,” we thought it appropriate to provide some recently released official statistics regarding health care services and the[...]

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150th Consecutive Daily Blog (And Counting)

August 1, 2011

Today’s  blog represents the 150th consecutive daily entry appearing in this blog. Over 500 hours have been devoted to researching and writing the blogs that have appeared here. We have addressed the official statistics regarding medical malpractice claims in the U.S. (March 5) as well as i[...]

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Laws Limiting Physicians’ Self-Referral

May 15, 2011

Limitations on physician self-referrals were enacted into law in 1989 under the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act, commonly referred to as the “Stark law.” The Stark law, as amended, and its implementing regulations, prohibit certain physician self-referrals for designated health services (̶[...]

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HEALTH CARE COSTS AND TORT REFORM

March 8, 2011

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has stated that tort reform might reduce  health care costs by 0.5 percent, saving approximately $11 billion out of a total of $2.5 trillion in health care costs annually. The actual costs of malpractice insurance premiums, court verdicts, and the[...]

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