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Dr. Fisher is a professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, Dr. Bynum an assistant professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, and Dr. Skinner a professor of economics and of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, where Dr. Fisher also directs the Center for Health Policy Research, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

The expansion of health insurance coverage in the United States is likely to be on the front burner of health care reform efforts in the new presidential administration. But boiling on the back burner is perhaps the most serious threat to Americans’ access to care: rapid growth in health care costs.