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Supply & Demand

PROLOGUE

Supply And Demand: The Big Picture

PROLOGUE: Among the seldom challenged axioms of U.S. health care policy are that the aging of the population will drive up health care costs, and that hospitals have too much capacity and need to shrink their operations. This group of three papers challenges those maxims and sets out some other issues for policymakers to consider when confronting supply and demand in U.S. health care markets: how to increase capacity in the new era of rising demand for health care services; how to finance health care for the aging baby boomers; and how to better manage that capacity.

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