Health Affairs, 27, no. 6 (2008): 1619 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.6.1619 © 2008 by Project HOPE	New Online   Senate Health Reform Bill   Rewarding Providers   Public Option Policy Brief   Health Reform & Abortion   Delivery System Reform

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New Technology

PROLOGUE

Buying New Technology

The relentless advance of medical technology poses a real dilemma for U.S. health policy. On the one hand, we want better technologies—devices, drugs, diagnostic tools, treatments—because we want better health care, and superior health outcomes and lower costs, if possible. Americans broadly support new technology, as Claudia Schur and Marc Berk report, and whether they ought to or not, they trust their doctors more than other sources of information about the benefits and risks.

On the other hand, as a nation we face quandaries in trying to figure out what new technologies are worth and what to pay for them. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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