Another Short-Term Wager on Health Care’s Status Quo?

In a new AEI paper published today, “Will Health Care's Immediate Future Look a Lot Like the Recent Past?” Mark Pauly reviews the latest evidence on the past and projected future of health care spending and delivers a seemingly counterintuitive conclusion: The public-sector share of spending continues to creep upward, but so, too, does the share of health care delivered and administered through more “market-like” private-sector mechanisms.