Perspective Examines Wasteful Spending in the U.S. Health Care System
"Waste, We Know You Are Out There," New England Journal of Medicine: In the perspective, Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses what is meant by wasteful spending in regard to health care, whether the U.S. has "the means to curtail it" and how quickly savings could be realized from reducing waste. He also discusses several ways to cut spending on low-benefit, high-cost care and other ideas to control health care spending and achieve savings (Aaron, NEJM, 10/30).
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