The doctors interviewed about how to save on health care costs provide a fascinating cross section of ideas. Some are not new—insure catastrophic care only. Others may surprise you.

This is a round-up of some doctors’ views about how we can all save on health care costs.

Every one of the suggestions in the full story are excellent ones—ones which are concerned with the integrity of medicine as well as the cost management of it.

Please do read this one.

The New York Times

…”That raises the ultimate Patient Money question: How can the country reduce health care costs while not compromising quality?

“During the health care debate, government officials, insurers, drug companies and medical associations all weighed in with their opinions. But what about the people who receive so much of our out-of-pocket health care payments: the doctors on the medical front lines? What do they think the country — in other words, you and me — should do to help moderate costs?”

Source: New York Times, March 20, 2010