CONCLUSION The health system that Johansen describes is one that has been on a
relentless path of increasing high-cost utilization without clear return on investment. While …

Pressure to reform our health care sys-tem is at an all-time high, driven by relentlessly rising
costs and fragmentation of care. These persistent problems have led to lower quality care …

Health care costs are unevenly distributed, with a small percent of patients accounting for
most health care costs in this country. 1, 2 A population health perspective is necessary to …

The health care debate in the United States increasingly is focused on appeals to fear and
ignorance. The online conversation since the last issue of Annals provides a welcome …

We share Woolf and Johnson's pain. 1 The American health care system simply fails to
deliver the health benefits commensurate with our investment. We have no one to blame but …

President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released The Economic Case for
Health Care Reform on June 2. The report, which is a masterful summary of the sad and …

If family medicine is to speak with one voice, then we must decide as a profession what it is
we want. The good news is that we have done the homework to get our own house in order …

In short, her answer is a fiveletter word, greed. Rosenthal, a medical doctor and now editor
of the Kaiser Health News, pulls no punches and lets no one off the hook, including health …

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Americans deserve leadership for real health care reform that provides access to high-
quality medical care and ends spiraling costs. Senator John McCain writes that our …