Health Care Cost Cutting

I'm bookmarking it for later, but the doc who did the devastating New Yorker piece on disparate costs in Texas has an analysis out on measures that take up half the 2,000-page bill.

The reason the system is a money drain is not that it’s so successful but that it’s fragmented, disorganized, and inconsistent; it’s neglectful of low-profit services like mental-health care, geriatrics, and primary care, and almost giddy in its overuse of high-cost technologies such as radiology imaging, brand-name drugs, and many elective procedures.

UPDATE: Read it. Excellent article.