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May 6, 2013 | Report
A review of trends in health spending growth over the last decade show that growth began to slow well before the most recent recession, according to researchers at the Urban Institute.
May 6, 2013 | Journal Article
This study examines two factors that might account for slower health spending: job loss and benefit changes that shifted more costs to insured people.
April 1, 2013 | Report
A diverse group of health care stakeholders present their recommendations for controlling costs and improving the quality of our health care system.
May 6, 2013 | Story
Researchers take a look at the recent slowdown in the growth of health care spending and question whether this slowdown is temporary or here to stay.
April 29, 2013 | Report
Experts recommend solutions for closing the gaps in quality and efficiency of health care.
April 18, 2013 | Report
The Bipartisan Policy Center recommends ways to contain health care spending while improving the quality and affordability of care.
August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Reducing health care costs is a key public policy issue, but a complicated one because costs and prices are opaque not only to the public but often to health care providers, purchasers, and payers.
April 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
In most developed countries, there is a direct correlation between health care spending and life expectancy. Yet the United States, one of the wealthiest and most industrialized countries in the world, defies this norm.
December 1, 2011 | Survey/Poll
Problems paying medical bills affect families, the elderly, insured and uninsured.
July 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
U.S. health care costs continue to rise, with per capita costs already the highest in the world. Higher prices, worse efficiency and the cost of insurance administration are the leading reasons U.S. costs are higher.