Deseret News May 18, 2022
David Muhlestein and Mike Leavitt

Slowing the momentum of 40 years of rising health care costs won’t come easily, and it will require public and private players patiently working on solutions

By some accounts, America’s health care system has been wildly successful. Innovative breakthroughs have transformed care around the world. As an industry, it dominates the country in terms of employment and income. But that success, decades in the making, hasn’t necessarily made Americans healthier than people in other developed nations, and now it threatens to knock the United States off its perch as the world’s economic powerhouse.

The high cost of health care that has fueled the industry’s growth accounts for about 17% of the nation’s total goods and services — or $4 trillion...

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