GenevaLunch » health care costs http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 07:51:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no US could make big savings by slowing growth in obesityhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/08/us-could-make-big-savings-by-slowing-growth-in-obesity/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/08/us-could-make-big-savings-by-slowing-growth-in-obesity/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 14:09:46 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=70029 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Slowing the expected increase in growing obesity rates in the United States can drastically reduce health care costs, according to an analysis presented at a Washington health conference, National Public Radio reports. According to the evaluation presented at the Weight of the Nation conference in Washington and published in the American Journal [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/08/us-could-make-big-savings-by-slowing-growth-in-obesity/feed/ 0 Go to Virginia, young man, if you want to live longerhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/17/go-to-virginia-young-man-if-you-want-to-live-longer/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/17/go-to-virginia-young-man-if-you-want-to-live-longer/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:11:44 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58896 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It pays to live in certain locations, if you want to live longer and for men, this might mean Fairfax, Virginia over a lot of other places, says Bloomberg news agency in an article on a new report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle in the US. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/17/go-to-virginia-young-man-if-you-want-to-live-longer/feed/ 0 Swiss adopt biometric passport, complementary medicinehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/18/swiss-adopt-biometric-passport-complementary-medicine/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/18/swiss-adopt-biometric-passport-complementary-medicine/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 07:50:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=17875 GenevaLunch.com Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss voters Sunday 17 May adopted biometric passports and a government proposal for insurance to cover, to a limited extent, complementary medicine costs. In cantonal and communal votes, Geneva’s citizens accepted their government’s proposal to reform the education system and they have voted to abolish citizen juries. In Vaud, a new commune [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/18/swiss-adopt-biometric-passport-complementary-medicine/feed/ 2 Health care costs rise nearly 4 percent in 2008http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/21/health-care-costs-rise-nearly-4-percent-in-2008/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/21/health-care-costs-rise-nearly-4-percent-in-2008/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:30:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=15582 GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The cost of health care in Switzerland rose 3.9 percent, or CHF679 per person, in 2008. The largest increases were for outpatient treatment (+10.4 percent) and laboratory fees (+8.5 percent). Hospital costs were relatively contained, rising only 1.5 percent. Outpatient costs account for nearly 25 percent of all obligatory health insurance [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/21/health-care-costs-rise-nearly-4-percent-in-2008/feed/ 1 Swiss health care spending third highest in world, 10.3% of GDPhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/30/swiss-health-care-spending-third-highest-in-world-103-of-gdp/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/30/swiss-health-care-spending-third-highest-in-world-103-of-gdp/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:29:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=14476 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Swiss government’s latest figures for health care costs, for 2007, show that costs “rose markedly higher than in the previous five years,” by nearly five percent in a year, to CHF55.3 million. Given the growth of the economy overall, the share of health care spending as a percentage of GDP [...]

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