Journal of the American Medical Association
Vol. 319, Issue 18, Pages 1861–1862
May 2018
HKS Authors
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Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, HKS; Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, HBS
Abstract
This Viewpoint calls out the contribution of growth in health care workforce to higher health care costs, and emphasizes the need to find efficiencies in the current national workforce and resist additional hiring growth as a mechanism to slow growth in spending.
Citation
Skinner, Jonathan, and Amitabh Chandra. "Health Care Employment Growth and the Future of US Cost Containment." Journal of the American Medical Association, 319.18, May 2018, 1861–1862.