Lowering Costs In Health Care

You highlight a major problem in health care; patients want to receive the best results, for the lowest cost possible. Often, when costs are discussed, it is a discussion with reference to insurance companies and government; however, I think the key is lowering costs is through individual patients and their health care providers. So, as in other business models you have to manage the results/product produced versus the assoicated costs to achieve the desired results .
With that being said,if as an industry there was a more reliable measurement of the results, I feel that alone will produce a significant change & improve the value of the health care provided, because medical providers change their approach from performing highly reimbursed