Bipartisan Report Focuses On Issues Driving Up Health Care Costs
KHN's Julie Appleby reports: "Among the reasons behind the nation's seemingly inexorable rise in medical spending are the practice of rewarding doctors and hospitals for volume rather than efficiency of care and the tax break given to consumers for their job-based health insurance, according to a report out Thursday from the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank in Washington" (Appleby, 9/20).
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