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medical school mapped medicare payment, it found disconcerting differences from one part of the country to the other. for example, in 2007, the average medicare recipient in miami tallied more than $15,000 in health care bills, whereas a recipient in minneapolis only cost the government about half that amount. and it wasn't because procedures were more expensive in miami than in minneapolis, the dartmouth study showed the patients in places like miami were receiving more care. more tests, more drugs, more time in the hospital, more invasive operations than patients in other parts of the country even though the patients in miami weren't any sicker than their neighbors. but so what, right? we want more specialists. we want more procedures. we want more tests. or at least we think we do. and that's the problem. because what we think is best for us often isn't.
average medicare recipient in miami tallied more than $15,000 in health care bills, whereas a recipient in minneapolis only cost the government about half that amount. and it wasn't because procedures were more expensive in miami than in minneapolis, the dartmouth study showed the patients in places like miami were receiving more care. more tests, more drugs, more time in the hospital, more invasive operations than patients in other parts of the country even though the patients in miami weren't any sicker than their neighbors. but so what, right? we want more specialists. we want more procedures. we want more tests. or at least we think we do. and that's the problem. because what we think is best for us often isn't. what the dartmouth group discovered is that the patients in the most costly regions where medicare spent more money on patients, those patients did not
when a team from dartmouth medical school mapped medicare payments, it found differences from one part of the country to another. for example, in 2007, the average medicare recipient in miami tallied more than $15,000 in health care bills, whereas a recipient in minneapolis only cost the government about half that amount. and it wasn't because procedures were more expensive in miami than in minneapolis, the dartmouth study showed the patients in places like miami were receiving more care. more tests, more drugs, more time in the hospital, more invasive operations than patients in other parts of the country even though the patients in miami weren't any sicker than their neighbors. but so what, right? we want more specialists. we want more procedures. we want more tests.
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