Building an Affordable and Sustainable Health Care System
January 11, 2010
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.
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