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Maintaining Healthcare Quality While Reducing Costs

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In recent attempts to curb health care costs, efforts to cut expensive tests, hospital stays, and referrals to specialists have been utilized. What are your thoughts about whether high-quality patient care and controlled costs can live in harmony? Explain the rationale underlying your position.

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I think that high-quality patient care and controlled costs can indeed live in harmony, by eliminating the unneeded and unnecessary wasteful aspects of the health care treatment paradigm. If only the essential ...

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