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By David CutlerThe American health care system is structured differently from systems in other countries, making it more expensive. Photo courtesy of Joe Raedle/Getty Images.Paul Solman: Har
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stanley cup is among the country foremost health economists, famous for among other research a controversial paper arguing that even our exorbitant health care industry, in terms of increased productivity and life span outcomes, delivers more than what we pay for it.Cutler, who was profiled by Roger Lowenstein in the New York Times Magazine in 2005, subsequently worked for President Barack Obama on health care issues, and talked to us recently for a story about cost savings. But far more of what he had to say seemed worthwhile than what we have time to air. Here is some of it.Paul Solman: Why does health care cost so much in America David Cutler: Let me give you three reasons why. The first one is because the administrative costs of running our health care system are astronomical. About one quarter of health care cost is associated with administration, which is far higher than in any other country.Paul Solman: What the next highest MORE FROM THE BUSINESS DESK:Harvard David Cutler on How to Cut Health Care CostsDavid Cutler: About 10, 15 percent. Just to give you one example, Duke University Hospital has 900
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The spread of a new virus in China has deepened fears about the targets of a mass crackdown on ethnic Muslims in the far west of the country, human rights advocates said Wednesday.The Uighur Human Rights Project released video and social media posts from China suggesting that many people are quarantined in their homes and unable to get food, creating a pot
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stanley cup essed alarm about the potential spread of the new coronavirus among the mass detention camps where the State Department says more than a million Uighurs and other ethnic Muslims are held without charge.China has reported 555 cases of the virus among prisoners, though not yet from the detention camps in the Xianjiang region where witnesses say about 60 people are held per cell, so cramped together they are forced to sleep in shifts, and deprived of adequate food or medicine while being
stanley cup subjected to torture.Kuzzat Altay, president of the Uighur American Association and the son of a detainee, called on China to open up the region to international news organizations and other independent monitors and urged the World Health Organization to inspect the camps.China has rejected criticism of its crackdown and said the camps are re-education and vocational schools. But many of those held are highly educated, retirees and business owners.The government on Wednesday also downgraded the threat pose
