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Ask the Expert: Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
Ellen-Marie Whelan explains what it means to "bend the cost curve" on health care and how we can achieve it through health reform.
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What is “bending the cost curve”? What can we do to bend the cost curve? How can health reform legislation help?
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- The Two Trillion Dollar Solution: Saving Money by Modernizing the Health Care System
- Payment Reform to Improve Health Care: Ways to Move Forward
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