TY  - JOUR
T1  - COntrolling health care costs in massachusetts with a global spending target
AU  - Steinbrook R
Y1  - 2012/09/26
N1  - 10.1001/2012.jama.11322
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1215
EP  - 1216
VL  - 308
IS  - 12
N2  - 
Massachusetts is a small state; its 6.6 million residents represent only about 2% of the US population. With 4 medical schools, world-renowned academic medical centers, and health insurance coverage among nonelderly adults of about 95% in 2010, the general quality of health care is considered high.1 However, health care in Massachusetts is also staggeringly expensive, even for the United States. In 2009, health spending per capita in Massachusetts was $9278, considerably more than the national average of $6815 and more than per-capita spending in any other state.2 Only the District of Columbia had higher per-capita spending on health care.2 Within Massachusetts, there is concern that the market clout of Boston's brand-name teaching hospitals and leading physicians allows them to command high prices.3- 4

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/2012.jama.11322
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2012.jama.11322
ER  -