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Health Care Trends

PROLOGUE

Health Care Trends

PROLOGUE: As in life and art, perspective is of paramount importance in understanding the effects of public and private policy decisions, for patterns and relationships only emerge over time and when viewed against the backdrop of events. However, in an age where information changes hands at lightning speed and planning horizons are becoming shorter, the long view often takes a back seat. But it is just this view that one needs in order to answer questions that are crucial to evaluating policy: What is working, what isn’t? Who is doing better, who is doing worse?

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