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Article: Freeze Health Care Costs; And stop building unnecessary facilities.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 8, 1993
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Health care reform can't wait for the answers that normal
political processes will yield. It will take two years or more before
a compromise health care reform package is fashioned, enacted and
implemented. But during that time, health care expenditures will not
stand still; they will have risen yet another 20 percent, perhaps
considerably more. Even worse, health care providers, anticipating a
comprehensive cost-containment program, will view the next two years
as an irresistible window of price-increasing opportunity. The costs
of health care will grow by $200 billion to more than $1 trillion
dollars. We can't grow the economy by drowning it in health care