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Rising health care costs continue.

Publication: Managed Care Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Based on 2003 data, economists had hoped that health care spending growth had begun to relent after several years of record-level increases. In reviewing 2004 statistics, however, it now appears that spending growth has reached a plateau, according to economists from the Center for Studying Health System Change. They note that, "Unfortunately, the good news of one year ago that health care cost trends turned downward has now been replaced by the bad news that trends stabilized in 2004 at a relatively high rate of...

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