A new survey of more than 200 U.S. health care professionalsreveals costs will rise significantly with health care reform, butwill be balanced with increased access to care and neworganizational efficiencies that will improve patients' quality ofcare.

The Health Care Reform Readiness Survey, released by BuckConsultants, indicates that although many health care organizationsanticipate patients will benefit most from reform, employer healthplans and the hospital system itself will experiencechallenges.

The majority of health care industry experts (75 percent) sayhealth care costs will rise as a result of reform, with 43 percentsaying they expect a “significant increase.”

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