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Health care spending could be curbed by doctors cutting back on expensive medical devices rather than slashing Medicare and Medicaid, according to Harvard researchers.
Speaking in advance of next month’s Congressional supercommittee meeting, aimed at reducing budget deficits by $1.5 trillion over the next ten years, Harvard Medical School professors and economists Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra pointed the finger at medical devices as a driver of rampant health care costs.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL —The incidence of adults worldwide with diabetes has more than doubled over the last 30 years, according to a study published by the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and Imperial College London.
The number of adults with diabetes rose from 153 million in 2008 to 347 million in 2008.
About 70 percent of the rise can be attributed to populating growth and aging, but the rest is driven by obesity, a direct result of worsening diets, researchers said.
