The High Cost of Health
Published: Jan 01, 1991. Publicly Released: Jan 01, 1991.
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This article, which appeared in the GAO Journal, No. 13, Summer/Fall 1991, discusses the high costs of health care and health insurance in the United States, focusing on: (1) the factors to which rising health care costs can be attributed; (2) various health care cost-containment methods that have failed; and (3) reforms that could significantly curb the overall growth of health-care spending.