{"id":22022,"date":"2010-09-25T02:23:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/uwe_e-_reinhardt-the_perennial_quest_to_lower_health_care_spending\/"},"modified":"2010-09-25T02:23:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T02:23:55","slug":"uwe_e-_reinhardt-the_perennial_quest_to_lower_health_care_spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22022","title":{"rendered":"Uwe E. Reinhardt&#8211;The Perennial Quest to Lower Health Care Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first major conference on health policy I ever attended, organized by The National Journal in Washington sometime in the late 1970s, focused on the rising cost of health care, which then absorbed close to 8 percent of gross domestic product and was threatening the unimaginable: to claim 10 percent or more of G.D.P.<\/p>\n<p>Governors, senators, members of Congress, business executives, the heads of trade associations and leaders of unions representing health care workers made presentations, and all of them agreed that the growth of health care spending had to be curbed -\u201d\u201c by what now is called \u201cbending the cost curve&#8230;.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Over the decades, the mission has been a failure, naturally&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/24\/the-perennial-quest-to-lower-health-care-spending\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first major conference on health policy I ever attended, organized by The National Journal in Washington sometime in the late 1970s, focused on the rising cost of health care, which then absorbed close to 8 percent of gross domestic<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22022\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,582,589,149,104,593,587,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-personal-finance","category-taxes","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}