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Want and no more, need and no less

23 Oct, 09 | by BMJ Group

Political attention has been focused on providing universal health cover, but this can’t happen without curbing rising costs. In this week’s podcast Duncan Jarvies talks to Albert Mulley, from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, about how practice variation is driving up the cost of health care. Zosia Kmietowicz takes us through the news.

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