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Robert H. Brook
Distinguished Chair in Health Care Services
Robert H. Brook holds the Distinguished Chair in Health Care Services at the RAND Corporation, where he previously served for 19 years as vice president and director of RAND Health. Brook led the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and was co-principal investigator on the Health Services…
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This commentary appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association on January 12, 2011.
In the 1970s, health care was simpler. The fields of transplant surgery, clinical pharmacology, and clinical oncology, among others, were just emerging. The proportion of the gross national product spent on health care was in the low single digits....
The remainder of this op-ed can be found at jama-ama-assn.org.
JAMA. 2011;305(2):195-196.