Building an Affordable and Sustainable Health Care System

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To ensure that fair, effective cost containment is achieved across the entire health care system, legislation should be amended to: (1) set national goals for reducing health care expenditure growth; (2) accelerate system-wide cost containment initiatives that expand pilots and improve health care delivery across public and private sectors; and (3) conduct an independent analysis of health system expenditures and trends to measure progress and (4) implement targeted enforcement should targets not be met.