>The Sad History of Cost Containment as Told in One Chart
>http://www.healthaffairs.org/WebExclusives/Altman_Web_Excl_012302.htm
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>As the nation once again faces double digit increases in health care
>costs, the seemingly unanswerable question of how to control the problem
>has suddenly returned to the nationís radar screen. This analysis by
>the Kaiser Family Foundation, published in the January 23, 2002 online
>version of the journal Health Affairs traces the effectiveness of
>government and private sector attempts to reign in health care costs over
>the past three decades and finds that no approach that has been tried in
>the past 35 years has had a lasting impact.