Health care cost control will affect total U.S. economy.
The crisis in health care costs in being attributed primarily to hospitals although it has many causes and sources. Moreover, it typically is viewed simply as being one industry's inflation even though it affects, and is affected by, finances and spending in many other sectors of society and the economy.
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