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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 1/2014

01-01-2014 | Editorial

Talking with Patients about Cost Containment

Author: Howard Brody, MD, PhD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 1/2014

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Conventional wisdom states that the American public is simply unwilling to talk about the need to constrain the costs of health care. Pundits note that the “R word,” rationing, is one of the proverbial political third rails. Nonetheless, a public health official recently has found audiences willing and even eager to talk about cost containment as an overriding policy priority. He elicits this response after he points out to them that by the year 2033, the projected annual premium for a health insurance plan for a family of four will exceed the projected annual median income for such a family (Michael Fine, MD, personal communication).1 …
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Metadata
Title
Talking with Patients about Cost Containment
Author
Howard Brody, MD, PhD
Publication date
01-01-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-013-2596-9

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