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2. In the US, cost concerns are just as pronounced, but to
suggest there is no national health system in the US is not
entirely accurate; federal-funded hospitals with emergency
departments have a duty to treat any acutely-ill citizen who
enters seeking treatment, irrespective of whether they are
There is still uncertainty about what the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act will bring, but HDR Architects
foresees an environment in which rising demand for higherquality and more cost-effective care will compete against a
backdrop of reduced reimbursement; new reimbursement
policies are based on a savings bonus, including bundled
payments for acute episodes of care and care outcomes.
“The Affordable Care Act focuses on outcomes,” says
Tye Farrow. “In the past, there has been access to massive
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