Seven Ways to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Costs — Right Now!

Note: this content originally appeared in our August 2009 newsletter. More up-to-date research may be available, but the message is still the same!

I believe that there are still many ethical and professional American physicians and many intelligent American patients who are capable of, in an alliance of patients and physicians, doing the right things.” Their combined clout is being underestimated in the current debate on healthcare reform.

Efforts to control costs in the US healthcare system date from at least 1932. With few exceptions

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