Expert Explains Why Healthcare Costs are Continuing to Rise in the US
The palpable euphoria surrounding the election of Democratic healthcare professionals to key positions in the U.S. midterms as an opening to tame rising healthcare costs in the country may be over-optimistic, if an analysis by Harvard University’s Associate Professor Anna Sinaiko on cost drivers is anything to go by. Those cost drivers appear to be more complex than can be fixed by newly elected officials like Abdul El-Sayed, Annie Andrews (incoming U.S. Senators), and Amy Acton, governor-elect in Ohio, among others. Sinaiko explains that inflation contributes to rising healthcare costs but likely plays a small role in current cost growth.…











