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Burdensome health care spending in the United States is a wide-reaching issue that requires multiple solutions, according to an expert. Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues recently published the results of a cohort study evaluating burdensome health care spending over time among individuals in the U.S.
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