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After a few years of success in controlling the costs of health care, the United States once again faces the challenge of what, if anything, to do about skyrocketing health care expenditures. Dealing with this challenge, which dominated the health policy agenda from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s, will be extremely difficult under any circumstances. It may prove impossible unless the factors that prevent poor and uninsured persons from obtaining medical care are addressed simultaneously.

Evidence of rising health care expenditures is widespread. Hogan and colleagues¹ estimate that private expenditures increased by 6.6 percent per insured person in 1999, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Arguments for Controlling Health Care Spending

Strategies for Reducing Health Care Spending

Strengthening Market Forces

Strengthening Government Controls

Improving the Management of Health Care Services

Enacting Cost Controls

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Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA 02114

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