The crisis in the U.S. economy has led many Americans to medicines and recommended medical procedures to deny reports Fox News. Experts believe that in the future this trend will inevitably lead to a rise in the number of patients that carry a long-term and expensive treatment. After the telephone survey conducted by a physician Kaiser Family Foundation, the number of Americans who said that they or their relatives were forced to retreat from certain types of treatment for financial reasons, has increased from 29 to 36 percent. About a third of respondents had not been recommended by the studies or procedures, with a fifth of them admitted that the refusal to treat their condition deteriorates. Another wake-up call to reduce the number of prescriptions is the first time in 12 years fell by 0.4 percent. In addition, after the unification of the financial management of health care facilities in U.S. hospitals by 1-2 percentage reduces the number of unnecessary medical procedures - in recent years, their numbers increased by 3-4 percent annually. At the same time, the U.S. health care facilities there is an influx of patients in need of assistance, especially for patients who have no health insurance. According to representatives of the American Hospital Association, in the future the number of such applications can be significantly increased.
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