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Understanding the Burning Platform of Health Care Spending Growth
Bill Frist and Margaret Hamburg, in Health Affairs Forefront [Opinion] Mar. 21, 2019 "There is strong evidence that our health spending provides less-than-optimal value. For example, we know that a portion of health care spending is for things that are not, in fact, health care.... In addition, unmet needs persist -- for example, in prevention, mental health and substance abuse care, and chronic disease management.... [H]ealth care has become so expensive that even many of those who are technically insured can't afford it ... [T]here is a gap between what we spend on our health system and the health-return that we get from it. To close that gap, we must either spend less or spend more wisely (or a combination of the two)." |
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