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Brandeis University
Can payment and other innovations improve the quality and value of health care?
February 14th, 2009
A paramount topic at the moment is value in health care: What should we pay for and how much' Resources aren't unlimited, and desires or demands for health care should be balanced against various realities--including the effectiveness of care or the desire for other goods and services. Especially in a depressed economy, questions about value in health care may well be at the center of coming health reform debates. In a commentary published in Health Affairs today, Brandeis health economists and policy experts Robert Mechanic and Stuart Altman write that unless the forty-year historical spending trend for health care "miraculously abates," expanded public and private...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-02-14)
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