Reducing Healthcare Costs by Fighting Overutilization in Hospitals
The premise of Gawande’s essay is overutilization in hospitals. A lower socioeconomic status (SES) town has similar healthcare expenses to a higher SES town, even if their schools and civil service buildings are drastically different.1. However, there is a massive difference in patient expenses between multiple hospitals. For instance, Gawande found that the Mayo … Read more