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From the Editor

Global Health Policy And Free Access To Information

While many Americans grouse about the high cost of medical care in the United States, their willingness to pay is strong evidence of the value they place on having ready access to these services. But little real research has documented why Americans pay so much more than citizens in other industrialized countries and how U.S. medical prices compare with the growth of other personal consumption spending in this country. In our lead paper Uwe Reinhardt, Peter Hussey, and Gerard Anderson explore these subjects and compare the growth of medical spending with the growth of spending for food, housing, transportation, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart

Founding Editor

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