Rising Health Care Costs: An Examination of Their Causes and Methods for Their Containment
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Authors
Kassab, Frederick D.
Issue Date
1980
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
Medical
knowledge has been broadened at an incredible rate to
encompass areas of human physiology of which our forefathers
had never had the slightest inkling. For ourselves and
future generations, life expectancies will continue to lengthen,
and lethal diseases of yesterday and today will only
exist as history due to such advancements in medical ingenuity and technology.
However, one fact remains unchanged to this day, as it
did one hundred years ago and as it will a century from
now. Along with this surge of medical know-how; coupled
to these increases in new technological improvements and
discoveries; inseparable from the ever-growing labor force
and degree of education necessary to understand and maintain
control on this upward and outward course of knowledge
and skills, is a parallel swelling of medical costs. At
first glance, however, the cost increases associated with
medical care appear astronomical, as compared with the
actual increases in the services and quality of the care.
This paper attempts to define medical care cost increases
and their causes, and examine several programs--defunct,
actual and proposed--which are aimed at controlling the
upward spiral of health care costs.
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iv, 88 p.
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