In a Buffalo News editorial they point out a number of things that can be done that could actually reduce the cost of health care without reducing the quality of care we receive.

“One of the reasons why real health care reform has seemed such a tough nut to crack is that it involves two seemingly contradictory goals.We want better care. And we want it to cost less.

But, in at least one area of medicine, there is reason to believe that cost-cutting, intelligently done, will actually improve the long-term health prospects of many Americans.

As outlined in an Associated Press investigation that ran on the cover of Sunday’s Viewpoints section, doctors in the United States order, and their patients receive, many more X-rays and CT scans than do their counterparts in other industrialized nations.

These methods of looking inside the body without making incisions or resorting to wild guesses are rightly considered among the most useful miracles of modern medicine.”

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