Getting Past Denial — The High Cost of Health Care in the United States

Abstract

What seemed to be a golden opportunity to achieve badly needed health care reform now appears to be threatened. Many Americans believe that we simply cannot afford to cover the uninsured, since doing so would require taxes to be raised beyond the level the public can sustain. Others believe that we can slow spending growth only by rationing needed care. Neither option is attractive. Evidence regarding regional variations in spending and growth, however, points to a more hopeful alternative: we should be able to reorganize and improve care to eliminate wasteful and unnecessary services.1 But not everyone is convinced. Some . . .

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