Professor Nancy M. Kane from Harvard School of Public Health and Joanne Castonguay, Research Director at the Institute for Research on Public Policies, explored important trends in cost management and how different systems in North America stack up against each other.
- Historic trends in per capita health care costs
- Exploring the reasons for recent slowdown in per capita costs in the US
- Reviewing cost containment developments in Massachusetts, the first state to achieve near universal coverage, but also the highest cost state
- Comparison with the proposed evolution of the health care system in Quebec
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