Cost Containment and Coverage Expansion May Reduce Financial Burden of Health Care

On March 26, 2010, Health Affairs published a study by Peter Cunningham, senior fellow at the Center for Studying Health System Change. Cunningham analyzed the financial burden of health care and its relationship to among other things, insured coverage rates and insurer market concentration. He concluded that cost containment efforts will have to be combined with expanding coverage to reduce the financial burdens of health care.