Cost-Containment

The White House has proposed tweaks to government health-care programs, but tweaks aren't enough. The underlying problem is drug prices that are indeed murderous.

The San Francisco-based company, founded in 2013, is betting that growing dissatisfaction with rising health-care costs will lure more firms to its technology, which lets employers cut through the tangle of different benefits they typically administer.

As treatment costs in traditional hospital settings continue to escalate, health care providers are increasingly shifting to smaller facilities for both inpatient and outpatient care.

CARA 2.0 includes numerous policy changes that include establishing a three-day initial prescribing limit on opioids for acute pain, beefing up services to promote recovery and aiming to increase the availability of treatment.

As treatment costs in traditional hospital settings continue to escalate, health care providers are increasingly shifting to smaller facilities for both inpatient and outpatient care.

The White House has proposed tweaks to government health-care programs, but tweaks aren't enough. The underlying problem is drug prices that are indeed murderous.