RT Book, Section A1 Bodenheimer, Thomas A1 Grumbach, Kevin SR Print(0) ID 1126404984 T1 Paying Health Care Providers T2 Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 7e YR 2016 FD 2016 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 978-1-259-58475-6 LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126404984 RD 2024/03/28 AB Chapter 2 described the different modes of financing health care: out-of-pocket payments, individual health insurance, employment-based health insurance, and government financing. Each of these mechanisms attempted to solve the problem of unaffordable care for certain groups, but each “solution” in turn created new problems by stimulating rapid rises in health care costs. One of the factors contributing to this inflation was the payment of physicians and hospitals by insurance companies and government programs. Currently, new methods of payment are being tried to lower the growth rate in health care costs.