Op-Ed: Why our health care costs are so high — and keep rising

Why are health care costs rising so fast?

I put that question to my Rutgers University graduate students in the first session of their health policy course each year. Most of them have or will go on to leadership roles in government or the private sector, so it is important that they grasp issues as important as this one. The U.S. spends about twice as much per capita on health care as the average of other developed countries, and we don’t have better outcomes to show for our outsized spending.