Cost containment: carrot or the stick?
All sides in the debate over healthcare reform seem to agree that it's an idea whose time has come. The consensus appears to be that the first generation of cost curbs failed to do the job. But when will the nation see real cost containment? And what form will it take? Proposals run the gamut from free-market approaches to greater governmental intervention.
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