Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System and Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System: Review

Relying on a number of studies, Callahan presents evidence that 50% of the annual increase in health care costs results from new technologies, the intensified use of old ones, or a combination. [...] he maintains that the U.S. annual rate of inflation of health care costs, about 7%, is not sustainable and must be reduced to about 3%.