Restoring fiscal sanity 2007 : the health spending challenge /

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Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical care, Cost of -- United States. Medical care -- United States -- Cost control. Health care reform -- Economic aspects -- United States. Medical economics -- United States. Health Expenditures. Health Care Reform -- economics. National Health Programs -- economics. Health care reform -- Economic aspects. Medical care -- Cost control. Medical care, Cost of. Medical economics. United States. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11153310

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Other authors / contributors:	Rivlin, Alice M. Antos, Joseph R. Brookings Institution.
ISBN:	9780815774921 0815774923 1280856661 9781280856662 9786610856664 6610856664 9780815774938 0815774931
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"Authors suggest reforms in federal programs that have the potential to reduce the growth of spending for the entire health system, increase the efficiency and effectiveness of care provided, and enhance health outcomes and stress the need for innovative approaches and cooperation between the private and public sectors"--Provided by publisher
Other form:	Print version: Restoring fiscal sanity 2007. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2007 9780815774938 0815774931

Table of Contents:

Overview
Rising health care spending--federal and national / Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin
Strategies for slowing the growth of health spending / Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin
The challenge of Medicare / Gail R. Wilensky
The role of Medicaid / Alan R. Weil and Louis F. Rossiter
Leveraging other federal health systems / Susan D. Hosek
Private payer roles in moving to more efficient health spending / Paul B. Ginsburg
Cost containment and the politics of health care reform / Judith Feder and Donald W. Moran
Building public support for slowing the growth of health care spending / Stuart M. Butler.

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