Additional Growth in Health Care Spending May Not Mean Better Health Care

March 3, 2003 Additional Growth in Health Care Spending May Not Mean Better Health Care Regions of the United States where health care spending is higher because more care is delivered, do not provide better care than regions with more conservative practice patterns, according to two new studies by researchers at Dartmouth Medical School and the Veteran Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont. The findings of this study question the idea that additional growth in health care spending is mostly a result of advances in science and technology. In regions with nearly identical health care needs, researchers found . . .