(AP) It’s a fact \u2013 three things \u2013 us, not taking care of medical errors, and medical inflation affect health insurance prices.<\/p>\n
Thankfully medical errors are evidently going down and ranking in about the 20% range. That means that 80% of the reasons for high health insurance prices are neglecting our health and medical inflation. On the surface 20% doesn’t sound that bad, but when the numbers are crunched they’re pretty appalling.<\/p>\n
These are recent statistics provided by the Department of Health & Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. They’ve found that potentially preventable errors that happen during or after surgery may cost employers close to $1.5 billion a year.<\/p>\n
That’s a whole lot of money being spent on fixing medical errors, extra costs that have no business happening in the first place. Consider the significant burden of these extra expenditures on the health care system. This factor in combination with people’s (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (AP) It’s a fact \u2013 three things \u2013 us, not taking care of medical errors, and medical inflation affect health insurance prices. Thankfully medical errors are evidently going down and ranking in about the 20% range. That means that 80%…<\/span><\/p>\n