U.S. Health Care Reform: Difficult Trade-Offs U.S. Health Care Reform: Difficult Trade-Offs

April 2, 2006

Why has health care become a major challenge to the U.S. economy and to economic policymakers?

The essay in the 2005 annual report summarizes the themes and consensus-based prescriptions for action that emerged from the Boston Fed's 50th economic conference, Wanting It All: The Challenge of Reforming the U.S. Health Care System, held in June 2005.

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