Health care reform - an inside view
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004I didn’t know that Brad DeLong had worked on health care reform back in the Clinton days. He posts some notes about the problems plaguing health care coverage in the US:
We needed to find a way to provide both patients and doctors with powerful incentives to reduce the roughly one-third of medical spending that went for unnecessary and inappropriate care. That meant finding some way to bring the hard incentives of the market system inside health-care decisions. But that proved remarkably hard to do–without producing a cure worse than the original cost-overrun disease.
