Restoring fiscal sanity 2007 : the health spending challenge /

Restoring fiscal sanity 2007 : the health spending challenge / Alice M. Rivlin and Joseph R. Antos, editors.

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"Authors suggest reforms in federal programs that have the potential to reduce the growth of spending for the entire health system, increase the efficiency and effectiveness of care provided, and enhance health outcomes and stress the need for innovative approaches and cooperation between the p...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: Brookings Institution
Other Authors: Rivlin, Alice M., Antos, Joseph R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Medical care, Cost of > United States.
Medical care > United States > Cost control.
Health care reform > Economic aspects > United States.
Medical economics > United States.
Health care reform > Economic aspects.
Medical care > Cost control.
Medical care, Cost of.
Medical economics.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Overview
  • Rising health care spending--federal and national / Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin
  • Strategies for slowing the growth of health spending / Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin
  • The challenge of Medicare / Gail R. Wilensky
  • The role of Medicaid / Alan R. Weil and Louis F. Rossiter
  • Leveraging other federal health systems / Susan D. Hosek
  • Private payer roles in moving to more efficient health spending / Paul B. Ginsburg
  • Cost containment and the politics of health care reform / Judith Feder and Donald W. Moran
  • Building public support for slowing the growth of health care spending / Stuart M. Butler.

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