Download or read book How to Bend the Cost Curve in Health Care written by Steven Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever money is saved through short-term restraint will be lost in panicked spending down the road. That's been the lesson of the past 20 years. The challenge is to bend the cost curve permanently while making the system perform better. What health value do we achieve for what we spend? Improving value for money will require governments, organizations and practitioners to leave their comfort zone of conventional practice.