… faced by health care systems is cost growth. For example, if health care costs continue to grow
in … three to four years for costs to return to current levels following a 15 percent reduction in …

… determine whether managed care can reduce expenditure growth to sustainable levels. …
to cost growth and the literature examining the impact of managed care on either cost growth or …

… reaching advances in longevity and the rapid growth in costs.… growth” as the major cause
of increases in health care … growth in health care and its impact on cost-growth and pro…

… health care costs are hidden from their view. In this article we describe the burden of health
care costs … other items would have been if health care cost growth had turned out differently. …

… Second, large variations exist in the per capita cost of health care around the country, … of
provider payment reforms on costs, value of care, and especially on cost growth remains limited. …

… health care costs growth are notoriously unreliable—that the historically low rates of cost
growth … While increases in health care costs may reflect efficient and desirable improvements in …

… Managing health care cost growth is a fundamental challenge facing our health care system…
, we conclude that barriers to health plan–level cost containment activities and strong forces …

… determining the appropriate extent of cost-sharing poses difficult practical problems. …
cost-sharing affects the cost of health care and the health of recipients; some spillover effects of cost-…

… We estimate the impact of both aging and population growth on spending in the hospital, …
“other personal” health care spending, which includes dental care, other health professionals, …

… the growth and composition of the health care CBA/CEA literature, to speculate on . possible
trends in the near future, and to reflect briefly on the quality implica- . tions of the growth …