Cost issues related to American healthcare policy.
OBJECTIVE
Diverse issues that affect current and future healthcare costs.


OBJECTIVE
To review the historical, present, and future cost issues related to American healthcare policy.


METHODS
Nursing journals, public policy Web sites, and health policy literature.


CONCLUSIONS
Any real change in health care will be hard to make because it always comes down to "Who pays?" Productive and sensible policy reform is preferable to the risk we now run of a healthcare system disconnected from any values except those of the marketplace.
University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA. kandaceL@msn.com
Kandace J
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Landreanau
D005380:Financing, Government; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States