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Health Care Expenditure Collaborative Furthering Recommendation #1 from "For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future"

A 2012 Institute of Medicine report recommended that the Secretary of HHS set targets for life expectancy and per capita health (care) expenditure to bring the United States in line with the average among peer nations (per data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD). Eight years later, the US standing in life expectancy and spending has not improved. The Health Care Expenditure Collaborative is facilitating a dialogue and analysis about what is needed to change this.

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Collaborative members author NEJM piece on Addressing Health Care Cost Growth – Why and How States Should Lead

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Collaborative members Elliot S. Fisher and Alena Berube authored an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in October 2024. The piece discusses the essential role that states have in comprehensively addressing rising health care costs in the U.S. View the NEJM article*. *This article was not produced by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and does not necessarily represent the views of the institution.

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Collaborative member Marthe Gold and co-chair Steven Teutsch (former chair and vice-chair, respectively, of the National Academies committee that authored the 2012 report that inspired the collaborative) participated in a November 2020 Q&A session with the National Academies Office of News and Public Information. Read the feature story.

Collaborative members author AJMC piece on Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) for Aligning Incentives and Building a Learning System to Improve Total Population Health

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Collaborative chair Sanne Magnan and member Paul Hughes-Cromwick authored a piece published in the American Journal of Managed Care in December 2024 that proposes targets needed to propel action toward addressing widening health disparities and life expectancy gaps in the US. View the AJMC article*. *This article was not produced by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and does not necessarily represent the views of the institution.

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