ConsumerWISE | What factors contribute to the rise in health-care costs

A number of factors contribute to the rise in health care costs:

1. Advances in medical treatments and technologies
   
   
2. Consumer attitudes
   
   
3. The consumer does not directly pay for the services received
   
   
4. Provider practice styles
   
   
5. Litigation
   
   
6. The frequency of disease in an aging population
   
   
7. Fraud and abuse
   
   

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