Changing the Cost of Healthcare

The Boston Globe
December 1, 2008

The recent report by The Boston Globe Spotlight team raised important questions about the cost and quality of healthcare in Massachusetts...

Unfortunately, some of this increased use of services does not improve quality and can actually cause harm. Years of research tell us that as much as 30 percent of all healthcare spending could be eliminated without reducing quality. A new analysis by the New England Healthcare Institute reveals hundreds of specific examples of the overuse, underuse, and misuse of healthcare services that don't improve quality but add hundreds of billions of dollars in costs...

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