Announcing the Health Care Cost Institute
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) is a new non-profit research institute and a unique and unprecedented health research partnership. Its mission is to promote independent research and analysis on the causes of rising US health spending, to provide policy makers, consumers, and researchers with better, more transparent information on what is driving health care costs, to help ensure that, over time, the nation is able to get greater value from its health spending.
Welcome Letter
Health spending is the biggest financial issue facing the nation. Over the past decade, health care costs have risen over three times faster than wages, squeezing family budgets and imposing a burden on many employers. The growing costs of Medicare, Medicaid and other public health programs are major contributors to the long term fiscal challenge facing the federal and state governments and any serious study of the drivers of increasing health costs is hampered by lack of access to timely, detailed data.
With this challenge in mind, we are proud to establish the Health Care Cost Institute with an aim of becoming the nation’s leading source of information on U.S. health care costs.
