Melinda B Buntin
melindabbuntin.bsky.social
Melinda B Buntin
@melindabbuntin.bsky.social

Johns Hopkins Professor of Health Policy and Economics

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Economics 47%
Public Health 32%
The Value Zeitgeist — Considering the Slowdown in Health Care Spending Growth | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @melindabbuntin.bsky.social , Carrie Colla, and I argue it's too soon to give up on value-based care.
The Value Zeitgeist — Considering the Slowdown in Health Care Spending Growth | NEJM
Over the past two decades, the health care spending growth rate in the United States has declined. But reducing the emphasis on value-based care could lead to a resurgence in spending growth.
www.nejm.org

In a NEJM Perspective w/ @ermeara.bsky.social and Carrie Colla we explore the policy incentives that reshaped spending growth—creating the Value Zeitgeist—and what’s at risk if we walk away from the emphasis on value based care.

Reposted by Ellen Meara

**What has slowed health care spending growth in the U.S. over the past two decades?**
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
The Value Zeitgeist — Considering the Slowdown in Health Care Spending Growth | NEJM
Over the past two decades, the health care spending growth rate in the United States has declined. But reducing the emphasis on value-based care could lead to a resurgence in spending growth.
www.nejm.org
BDP @melindabbuntin.bsky.social was quoted in a @newsweek.com article about what a recession could mean for Medicare. Read the full quote here:

www.newsweek.com/what-recessi...
What a recession would mean for Medicare
While Donald Trump's route to the White House was filled with promises of lowering costs, economists have expressed concern there could be a recession.
www.newsweek.com