A Few Private Health Care Problems not often talked about.

These few ideas sound like area's that have as much to do with rising costs as any other, but are never mentioned.

azdailysun: Twenty-eight percent of physicians polled said they personally were practicing more aggressively than they would like … 40 percent of primary-care doctors said they erred on the side of too much care because they didn't have adequate time to spend with their patients, according to a survey of 627 family-practice and internal-medicine doctors published in the Sept. 26 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Doctors also acknowledged that financial incentives from the fee-for-service payment model encouraged them to do more rather than less. Thirty-nine percent said other primary-care doctors would order fewer diagnostic tests if those tests didn't generate extra revenue for them, and 62 percent said medical subspecialists would cut back if the tests didn't come with financial incentives.