A doctor examines a patient at the UCSF Women's Health Center June 21, 2006 in San Francisco, Calif. Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed a plan called San Francisco Health Access Plan, a universal healthcare plan for San Francisco residents that will be the first of its kind in the United States. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Follow the health care dollar
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We know we spend a lot of dollars on health care, but where does all that money actually go? That lack of detailed knowledge about one of our biggest expenses seems to not even trouble many consumers of health care, until they have to pay for it themselves.
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Uwe Reinhardt: Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
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Elizabeth McGlynn: associate director at RAND Health. She directs the COMPARE initiative which looks at the costs of health care proposals.
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