Cost-Growth Benchmarks Can Make Health Care More Affordable and Equitable

As part of a forthcoming series that explores how states that are seeking to lower the cost of care can also advance health equity, the Century Foundation published a new report focused on cost-growth benchmarks. The report provides background on the factors that have driven unsustainable increases in the cost of healthcare and how the burden of unaffordable care falls disproportionately on communities that have been marginalized. The authors provide policy recommendations for states planning to implement cost-growth benchmarks that will enable them to better promote health equity in design, implementation, and execution.