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Cost Pressures

PROLOGUE

Health Care Cost Pressures In A Global Context

Necessary conditions are almost universally easier to identify than sufficient ones. Money is required to pay for health care; how much money is enough is a vastly harder question to answer. Even if one knew how much to spend, it would be necessary to determine the channels for directing it and the goods and services to buy with it. Questions about what a whole country ought to do don’t arise readily in most other sectors of the economy. Spending on defense is an exception, but it’s still simpler than health spending in most countries, because it’s a public monopoly, even . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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