Everyone in health care worries about escalating costs–until it comes to their share. Paul Ginsburg, president and CEO at the Center for Studying Health System Change, dropped in on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee this week to share that truth.

From his Senate Finance Committee testimony:

“Reflecting on the U.S. experience with health care cost containment, what is striking is the consistency with which leaders in both the public and private sectors have avoided the idea that real cost containment involves real sacrifice — patients going without services that may provide some benefit, or physicians, hospitals and insurers settling for smaller incomes or profits.”