Regulating Hospital Costs: The Development of Public Policy
- ISBN-10
- 0914904361
- ISBN-13
- 9780914904366
- Category
- Hospitals
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Authors
- David Pearson, David S. Abernethy
Description
The book is a descriptive and qualitatively analytical discission of the policy struggle in congress over the hospital cost containment act. Against a background of severe and uncreasing inflationin health care costs, an understanding of this struggle provides a per- spective on the probability that health care inflation will ever be brought under control. Available statistical indicators are presented to identify the dimensions of the problems. Various theories which have been advanced to explain inflation in the health care industry are presented and discussed, followed by a discussion of previous ef- forts to control health care inflation.
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