Cutting Health Care Costs With Concierge Medicine by Robert Pearl, M.D. Forbes. November 21, 2013.
(1) The U.S. spends more on health care each year than the entire economy of __________.
(2) Based upon a standard model of luxury goods expenditures/GDP growth--- medical expenditures track closely with luxury goods expenditures---the U.S. spends approximately ______________ more than what the model predicts.
(3) ________ percent of the U.S. populations accounts for approximately two-thirds of health care costs.
(4) One reason that interventions to reduce costs in high-cost populations fail is that the population is _________________.
(5) Tertiary prevention aims to intervene in ways that avoid the _____________________.
(6) ________________________ may be more effective than doctors or nurses in helping patients comply with their recommended treatment plan.
(7) What are some patient-care problems that community health workers may be uniquely able to solve?
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