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HealthCare Reform - What's next?

August 11, 2010

President Obama recently approved a healthcare reform bill that aims to extend coverage to 32 million uninsured people. But instead of calling it a healthcare reform bill, it’s more appropriate to call it an “insurance reform” bill. Granted health care needed to be fixed in this country. But it cannot just stop at insurance reform. We need to take substantial steps to curb the rising costs of health care in terms of its “unit costs”, which really is the fundamental issue we're trying to solve.

Why Health Care Costs Keep Rising—And What to Do About It

September 13, 2009

Analysis of:Bending the Curve:Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth | www.brookings.edu

When economist Charles Wheelan published an analysis titled “The Top 10 Reasons for Soaring Health-Care Costs,” it was refreshing to read about the problem from an economics point of view. What Wheelan did not cover, however, was what we can do to address the issues that continue to cause health care costs to spiral out of control. What follows is a point-by-point look at Wheelan’s top 10 reasons followed by a discussion of what we are doing—or could do—to control costs better.

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