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Crafting effective policy solutions to the high and rising costs of health care requires a clear understanding of the underlying problem. First, more than 75 percent of health care spending is traced back to patients with a chronic illness.¹ Patients who are chronically ill have long-lasting conditions that, in general, require predictable medical interventions. Although these medical interventions are well established, chronically ill patients receive only 56 percent of the recommended care each year.² Second, most of the increase in health care spending is associated with a rise in the prevalence of treated disease, much of which is in turn . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta.

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