Topic: Gail Wilensky

Will overhaul put the brakes on health care costs?

AP News - 756 days ago
Plenty of cost control ideas in health bills but staying power is needed to make them workShort of rationing, lawmakers have pulled nearly every available cost-control lever in the sweeping health care overhaul President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders are pushing ...

Rising Health Care Costs Top Reform Agenda

Modern Medicine - 1362 days ago
The spiraling cost of health care should be the number-one priority of health care reform in the United States, according to a leading health care economist who delivered the Samuel A. Cosgrove Memorial Lecture, " Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., an economist and senior ...