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Business Of Health

PROLOGUE

The Business Of Health

PROLOGUE: The recent resurgence in health care spending, following an extended period when expenditure increases fell to record-low levels, underscores the impact of steps that took the teeth out of managed care. As Bradley Strunk and colleagues reported last fall in their Health Affairs Web-exclusive paper (26 September 2001), health care spending surged a whopping 7.2 percent in 2000, capping a three-year run of "significantly high growth." Notably, hospital inpatient spending, which increased at a rate of 2.8 percent in 2000, overtook prescription drugs as the primary health care cost driver. The return to accelerated cost inflation has been attributed, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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