{"id":24322,"date":"2025-04-29T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24322"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:02:24","slug":"how-to-lower-healthcare-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24322","title":{"rendered":"How to lower healthcare costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cost of the U.S. healthcare system has ballooned to $4 trillion a year. Although the number of heart-related deaths remains the same, chronic heart disease has exploded. Insurance paid out $35 billion for weight-loss drugs, while it pays nothing for exercise and nutritional programs. So, how does the U.S. address the needless spending? Andry Lazris and Alan Roth, both practicing physicians, write in their opinion article for MarketWatch that the solutions are obvious only if politicians accept them. To read their article, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/medicare-for-all-these-doctors-say-its-possible-if-healthcare-takes-its-medicine-062c358f\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/medicare-for-all-these-doctors-say-its-possible-if-healthcare-takes-its-medicine-062c358f\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7924\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of the U.S. healthcare system has ballooned to $4 trillion a year. Although the number of heart-related deaths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,20,200,40],"tags":[385,238,480],"class_list":["post-24322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-health-insurance","category-m4a-and-public-option-plans","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-for-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24323,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions\/24323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}