June 24, 2012
Regional Grant Makers Hold the Key to Containing Health-Care Costs
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Community efforts with modest levels of support can have a profound influence.
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Community efforts with modest levels of support can have a profound influence.
Our nation’s health-care challenges are so daunting that it’s tempting to leave it to big national foundations to solve the problems. But it turns out that community foundations, family foundations, and other regional grant makers may be the only ones who have the power to fundamentally transform the U.S. health-care system. The vast costs and complexity of health care have led most local foundations to sidestep the issue. They may pay for a new hospital wing or research on a
