- ►annals.org T Bodenheimer - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world, with per capita health
expenditures far above those of any other nation. For many years, US health care expenditures
have been growing above the overall rate of inflation in the economy. A few experts have ... Cited by 95 - Related articles - All 9 versions
T Bodenheimer - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians One major difference between the costs of care in the United States and those in other developed
nations is the price per unit of care—physician fees, payments per hospital day, and pharmaceutical
prices. Greater quantities of high-priced innovative technologies in the United States also ... Cited by 30 - Related articles - All 8 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] T Bodenheimer - Annals of Internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians Technologic innovation, in combination with weak cost-contain- ment measures, is a major factor
in high and rising health care costs. Evidence suggests that improved health care technologies
generally increase rather than reduce health care expenditures. Greater availability of ... Cited by 92 - Related articles - All 7 versions
YC Feynberg - lifeadjustmentcenter.com Discussion and Analysis of Problems and Solutions ... A Review of the Managed Healthcare
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- ►highwire.org E Meara, C White, DM Cutler - Health Affairs, 2004 - healthaff.highwire.org We combine household surveys and total spending data to analyze trends in medical spending
from 1963 to 2000. During this nearly forty-year period, spending grew fastest among the
elderly. Per person spending among the elderly grew rapidly from 1963 to 1987, but this ... Cited by 32 - Related articles - All 5 versions
MV Pauly - HEALTH AFFAIRS-MILLWOOD VA THEN BETHESDA …, 2003 - healthaff.highwire.org Medical care spending growth has recently begun running fur- ther ahead of inflation, population
growth, and growth in gross domes- tic product (GDP), resuming a pattern that was interrupted
in the mid- 1990s. Does this represent a phenomenon worth worrying about? To an ... Cited by 32 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
T Bodenheimer, A Fernandez - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians An example of a cost-reducing, quality-enhancing program is post-hospital nurse monitoring
and intervention for patients at high risk for repeated hospitalization for congestive heart
failure. Disease management programs that target groups with a chronic condition rather ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►highwire.org UE Reinhardt - Health Affairs, 2003 - healthaff.highwire.org In the debate on health policy, it is widely believed that the aging of the US population is a major
driver of the annual growth in the demand for health care and in national health spending. This
essay draws on the research literature and on data from the Medical Expenditure Panel ... Cited by 67 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►shouxi.net D Blumenthal - New England Journal of Medicine, 2006 - content.nejm.org This development is not, of course, imminent. But neither is the system of employer-sponsored
insurance healthy and secure. It faces challenges that are unparalleled in its roughly 70-year
history — including apparently unsustainable cost increases — and the ability of the ... Cited by 44 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►highwire.org ME Chernew, RA Hirth, DM Cutler - Health Affairs, 2003 - healthaff.highwire.org PROLOGUE: The question of affordability, be it at the micro level of the individual household
or the macro level of state and federal governments, is often a subject of consuming interest because
resources are far more scarce than demands for their use. During a period when health ... Cited by 73 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
