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It turns out that Americans are being exposed to more radiation in hospitals than necessary. Doctors are referring patients to highly radiated imaging tests even when they don’t really need it. Doctors use tests for research purposes as well as financial incentives and can offer better treatments but the cons are that medical costs skyrocket causing healthcare to go up as well. I definitely think that Congress and federal government should look into some sort of healthcare reform for this unnecessary increase in costs. It turns out this new imaging technology doubled cost of Medicare to about 14 billion dollars from 2000-2006. I believe that all this money that could be used for other purposes instead of being poured into the unnecessary uses of imaging machines. It is not right for doctors to refer patients to imaging tests for their own financial purposes, because eventually the tax payer has to pay for it. It may be important to see to it that everyone gets their health care but not if it calls for improper spending of money.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090304/hl_nm/us_radiation_imaging
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