TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges A1 - Bodenheimer, Thomas A1 - Grumbach, Kevin PY - 2016 T2 - Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 7e AB - The perfect health care system is like perfect health—a noble aspiration but one that is impossible to attain. In the preceding chapters, we have discussed many fundamental issues and principles involved in formulating health care policy. A recurrent theme has been the notion that “magic bullets” are hard to come by. As stated in Chapter 2, policies tend to evolve in a cyclic process of finding solutions that create new problems that require new solutions. Policy changes may offer a degree of relief for a pressing problem, such as inadequate access to care, but frequently also give rise to various side effects, such as stimulating health care cost inflation. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126405981 ER -