Bending the Health Cost Curve

Estimating how much the nation will spend on health care is difficult, but in many ways, it is even more difficult to say how much the nation should spend on health care, because the answer depends on values as well as on data related to health, medical technology, and the economy.

Links:

How to Think about Future Health Care Spending, Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine, March 10, 2010

Bending the Cost Curve, The Bioethics Channel, 16 minutes 27 seconds