Why So Much?

The issue of the local cost of health care gets a good airing in the latest issue of Commmonwealth magazine available on newsstands and online. The article - Cost Unconsious - by David Denison rounds up the usual insurance, hospital and state government executives to agree that the current rate of cost escalation is unsutainable. To see who they blame and what they propose will require reading the article. Hint: there is little "physician heal thyself."