USA Today recently published an article that discusses how the United States, is the world’s largest spender on health care, yet receives the least amount of value in return. “A 2012 Institute of Medicine report on health care spending in 2009 estimated that of the $2.7 trillion national spend on health care that year, 30%- or $810 billion- was wasted on unnecessary services, inefficient service delivery, fraud and abuse, predatory pricing and excessive administrative costs.”

According to a study recently conducted by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), “healthcare spending has grown at a historically slow rate.” For some time now, economists have been predicting healthcare spending to grow as the baby boomer generation begins to retire.

A recent KSDK.com article provides some insight into a potential doctor shortage that could affect our nation’s healthcare industry by the end of 2015. A host of federally funded programs are currently employing thousands of primary care physicians, but what will happen once a large portion of the funding expires at the end of next year?

A study published in the journal Health Affairs suggests that shifting the Affordable Care Act’s enrollment period from late fall and early winter to late winter and early spring may significantly boost the number of Americans signing up for insurance plans under the health law.