On May 28, the United States General Accounting Office ("GAO") released a special publication containing highlights of the GAO's January 2004 Health Care Forum. Participants concluded that U.S. wealth and other factors drive up health care spending, which could induce adverse economic implications if not contained, and that the nationwide variation in use of medical services suggests that there are quality and efficiency problems in the current healthcare system. Likewise, the report states that cost containment and value enhancement are key challenges facing the nation's current health care system. The entire report is available at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04793sp.pdf.
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