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HEALTH CARE 2009 Volume 361:109-112 July 9, 2009 Number 2 Next

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Despite many waves of debate and piecemeal reforms, the U.S. health care system remains largely the same as it was decades ago. We have seen no convincing approach to changing the unsustainable trajectory of the system, much less to offsetting the rising costs of an aging population and new medical advances.

Today there is a new openness to changing a system that all agree is broken. What we need now is a clear national strategy that sets forth a comprehensive vision for the kind of health care system we want to achieve and a path for getting there. The central . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From Harvard Business School, Boston.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0904131) was published on June 3, 2009, at NEJM.org.

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