Ethics Talk: Understanding and Controlling the High Cost of Health Care

Aug 2015

Ethics Talk: Understanding and Controlling the High Cost of Health Care

Description

This month, AMA Journal of Ethics editor-in-chief Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, interviewed Peter A. Ubel, MD, about factors contributing to the high cost of health care, how to bend the cost curve, and the compatibility of cost containment and profit seeking. Dr. Ubel is the Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business.