The big riddle: How to lower health costs
More coverage. More choice. Better care.
And lower costs.
Those are the four goals of health reform. None are easy. But reducing costs is probably the toughest of all, particularly in light of the first three.
It’s essential: Unless the growth in costs is brought under control, health care threatens to break the budgets of Uncle Sam and millions of Americans.
Most of the attention has been paid to one of the biggest proposed cost savers from Democrats: a government-run public insurance plan to compete with private insurers.
But there are plenty of other cost-saving proposals that have been put forth by Congress and the Obama administration.
Here is a look at a few of them and how effective (or not) they may be.