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Health Spending

PROLOGUE

Health Spending In 2006

Health care spending is a bread-and-butter topic of any policy conversation involving U.S. health care, forming one leg in the familiar triad of cost, quality, and access. Anyone who needs evidence of this need look no further than Health Affairs’ archive, which indicates that about 60 percent of the papers published since 1981 have mentioned spending on health or health care at least once. Our coverage over the years has involved many different aspects of the debate, including descriptive work and projections but also exploring subtler aspects of problems surrounding spending and its broader implications, often with surprising results. This . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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