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August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Reducing health care costs is a key public policy issue, but a complicated one because costs and prices are opaque not only to the public but often to health care providers, purchasers, and payers.
April 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
In most developed countries, there is a direct correlation between health care spending and life expectancy. Yet the United States, one of the wealthiest and most industrialized countries in the world, defies this norm.
March 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Investments in efforts to prevent chronic health problems like obesity can have significant budget savings.
April 30, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
The cost of medical care should be as clear as the cost of groceries, says OkCopay founder and PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Touré McCluskey.
These resources explore methods for reducing the ever-increasing costs of American health care.
These resources explore the high cost of American health care.
April 11, 2013 | News Release
A diverse group of health care stakeholders present their recommendations for controlling costs and improving the quality of our health care system.
As we look to find solutions to stem the rising costs of health care, understanding what those costs are is critical.
April 5, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Investing in programs that prevent chronic diseases would ultimately decrease the costly long-term expenditures driven by those diseases, Ashok Reddy writes.
March 1, 2012 | Report
Strategies discussed at a June 2011 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-convened meeting of health care experts inform this paper on the difficulties of cost and spending measurement and reporting.