The health groups backing away from their commitment last week have now resurfaced with a list of what they'll do to reduce health care costs. For example,
"...the American Medical Association, which represents doctors, is proposing to curb what it deems "overuse" in areas including Caesarean sections, back-pain management, antibiotic prescriptions for sinusitis and diagnostic imaging tests...All look to be things already in progress at forward-thinking organizations, though it never hurts to gain extra political credit for what you were planning to do anyway.
"(Other) proposals from the groups involved include trying to reduce medical errors, switching to common insurance forms, improving measurements of physician performance, reducing the number of patients readmitted to hospitals, improving the efficiency of drug development, and expanding in-home care for patients with long-term illnesses."
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