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Commentary: Again, public health in the United States needs an influential report

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  1. Center for Studying Health System Change, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Suite 550, Washington, DC, 20024, USA

    Hoangmai H Pham

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This health services researcher and clinician argues for a new report to synthesize evidence of how special interests thwart efforts to restrain growth of medical expenditures. US reformers will need more than fortitude to insulate program spending decisions from political influence.

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Pham, H. Commentary: Again, public health in the United States needs an influential report. J Public Health Pol 30, 49–53 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2008.67

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