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Health Care Financing Reform: (84) The Commonwealth Fund Believes that the Reform Bills Will Achieve Substantial Savings in Health Care Expenditures

December 9, 2009

    The most intractable problem that we as a nation face is to reduce the overall cost of health care.  There is good news on this score from the Commonwealth Fund.  A new study predicts that the proposed legislation will substantially reduce the growth rate of health care expenditures, largely as a result of modernization [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (82) Karen Ignagni on Reducing the Cost of Health Care

December 7, 2009

     Karen Ignagni, President of AHIP (America's Health Insurance Plans), has issued a clarion call to reduce the overall cost of health care in the United States.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (53) The Long-Term Solution to the Problem of Cost

October 30, 2009

     There are three problems that we face as a nation: lack of universal access to medical care, poor quality medical care for many people, and the high cost of medical care.  The last problem is the most intractable.  I propose a solution below. 

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Health Care Financing Reform: (33) OECD Study on Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Per Capita on Health Care

October 7, 2009

     We Americans spend more than 16% of our Gross Domestic Product on health care, a figure that is far higher than in other industrialized countries.  The cost of medical care is rising much faster than the increase in GDP and several times faster than increases in personal income.  The cost of medical care has more [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (2) Costs

August 24, 2009

     I thank the readers who posted comments to last Friday's entry about health care financing reform.  In this post I respond briefly to those comments, report on differing views about the causes of the high cost of medical care in the United States, and provide some links to informative sources on the subject.

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