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Insights on Health Care Reform

In her new book, Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails, Sherry Glied, Ph.D., assistant professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, explains how rising health care spending goes hand-in-hand with a rising standard of living.

Published by Harvard University Press, Chronic Condition analyzes the causes of the current health care crisis and of the shortcomings of reform proposals, many of which have failed to account for the tension between the desire for improving the quality of health care and the widespread interest in assuring that the less fortunate share in these improvements. According to Glied, a former senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, health care reform must address not the overall level of health care costs, but the distribution of health care spending.