COVER STORY

Lawmakers Face Trouble 'Bending The Curve'

Health care spending keeps going up, with no end in sight. Will reform efforts make a difference in controlling costs?

by Marilyn Werber Serafini

Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009


Deep-seated anxiety over rising health care costs helped make reform a major issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Yet somewhere along the way, Capitol Hill shifted its focus away from controlling costs ("bending the curve"). What can be done to restrain spending?

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