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Health Care Costs

PROLOGUE

Health Care Costs

PROLOGUE: Recent news on the health care cost front has not been good news, and forecasts indicate a return to double-digit premium increases and a general upswing in health care spending. In the first of a group of papers examining health care costs, Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein renew the effort to muster support for a single-payer system with a recalculation of current public expenditures for health care. By including the value of the existing tax subsidy for private insurance and of premiums paid for public-sector employees, Woolhandler and Himmelstein figure that 60 percent of the nation’s health bill is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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