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Reader Submissions: How Can the Medical System Save Money?

We seem to be able to find plenty of suggestions online about how we patients can save money on our healthcare (some which work, most which don't) - but we patients have ideas about how insurers, providers and the government can save money, too...

... Suggestions that don't shortchange us patients; instead they are more efficient ways of doing business. Here are some suggestions from About.com empowered patient readers about ways the system can save money but ensure good care for us, too.

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What steps would be required to help save the system large amounts of money? How long would it take? Who does it affect?

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