Is Less More? Spending for Better Outcomes

15/12/2009 14 min

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Episode Synopsis



Host: Bruce Japsen

Guest: Michael Ong, MD



In the healthcare debate, we've heard a lot about the equation between improving quality and cutting costs. But new research takes the opposite view that sometimes increased spending leads to better outcomes. Host Bruce Japsen, who also writes about healthcare for the Chicago Tribune, talks with Dr. Michael Ong, assistant professor of medicine in residence in the UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine, about his research.

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