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Keeping patients healthy or on their medications and diets is a key to improving results both individual health and cost containment.
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Pennsylvania has detailed price information on cardiac and joint replacement surgeries on its Health Care Cost Containment Council Web site, but the data are several years old.
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Pennsylvania, which requires the most extensive reporting of hospital-acquired infections, saw the annual rate for all infections drop 8 percent, according to the most recent figures available from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
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Health Care Cost Containment Initiative.
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The numbers illustrate the crucial truth that serious health care cost growth containment is the number one thing we can do to ensure our long-term fiscal health.
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First, health care reform has two components: cost containment provisions and expanded coverage.
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But everybody cares about health care costs, which suggests that cost containment would be a good place to start fixing the problem.
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Imposing one-size-fits-all regulations on a state that already has universal health care and is leading the way on cost containment is counterproductive to say the least.
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Now five years into the Massachusetts plan, Governor Deval Patrick is about to sign into law a far-reaching cost containment bill that will create an 11-member Health Policy Commission very similar to IPAB except that it will astonishing power to control the practice and organization of medicine.
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Second, while we are waiting for the cost containment provisions to take hold, we are insisting that health care reform be deficit neutral.
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Health spending will consume fully one-third of the budget in 2020 with no cost containment in sight.
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