- ►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
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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
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- ►annals.org [PDF] T Bodenheimer - Annals of Internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians Technologic innovation, in combination with weak cost-contain- ment measures, is
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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,
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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 ... 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
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- ►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
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- ►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 ... 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
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