Health care cost containment: what is too much?
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منابع مشابه
An iconoclastic view of health cost containment.
Calls for medical care cost containment are all around us. Although the evidence that costs are too high is strong, the evidence that they are rising too quickly is much weaker. The principal cause of increasing costs appears to be the increased capabilities of medicine; the scant evidence available suggests that to date the public has wanted to pay for most of these capabilities. Effective glo...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Health affairs
دوره 5 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1986