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By David M. Cutler. 158 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. $25. ISBN 0-19-516042-8.

The rising cost of health care — and what to do about this problem — is perhaps our nation's most pressing health policy issue. The recent spike in private-insurance premiums has alarmed both employers and employees. More telling is the lack of clear policy options designed to discourage the introduction and use of high-cost, low-benefit medical care. As if the problem were not bad enough, other research findings tell us that evidence-based medical care is dramatically underused.

David Cutler makes an important contribution to our thinking on this important issue in Your Money or Your Life. The book provides . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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