There is also no clear plan to slow the growth of health-care costs. As a sign of their support for the administration’s goals, the pharmaceutical industry and the hospital industry have together promised to reduce costs by a total of about $20 billion a year – a token amount, given government health spending of roughly $1 trillion and total health outlays of more than $2 trillion.
仍然没有明确的计划来遏制医疗费用的增长。为表示对政府目标的支持，制药行业和医疗行业共同承诺将每年的费用降低200亿美元——在政府约1万亿的医疗开支和总共超过2万亿的医疗费用面前，这个数字不过是一种象征性的姿态。