Executive Briefings | April 8, 2014
Will Health Care Reform Bend The Cost Curve?
At the fourth anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) (see PPACA – Four Years Later, What Has Changed?), one of the big questions about effectiveness has to do with health care costs. The health care reform initiative was billed as a key tool to “bend the cost curve.” As of 2012, U.S. health care spending had reached $2.8 trillion in the U.S. – over 17 . . .