Nearly all respondents to the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey agree that the U.S. must rein in the growth of health care spending, and most believe it is possible to hold the current percentage of gross domestic product devoted to health care steady over the next decade. In addition, large majorities expressed support for a range of strategies to reduce costs, including many of those outlined in President Obama’s budget blueprint. Also available are two related commentaries, Uniquely American Solution by Karen Ignagni, CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, and Change the Microenvironment by Francis J. Crosson, M.D., senior fellow at the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy.
