Health Care Benefits vs. Costs: Are We Making the Right Choices?

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Rosa Abrantes-Metz, Albert Metz, Sep 30, 2014

America has a new health care system, which attempts to increase coverage at less cost. There are doubts that it is in fact doing so, but that should not be a surprise to anyone. We have for years pointed out that increasing coverage while lowering prices would not generally be feasible without severe rationing of services. And, in fact, we can now see that to date and for many America