Controlling Hospital Costs: The Role of Government Regulation

Controlling Hospital Costs: The Role of Government Regulation
ISBN-10
026210024X
ISBN-13
9780262100243
Category
Medical / General
Pages
211
Language
English
Published
1981
Publisher
MIT Press
Author
Paul L. Joskow

Description

The growing public concern over rapidly rising health care costs, particularly hospital care, is understandable, with direct and indirect expenditures now amounting to about $100 billion each year. In this book, economist Paul Joskow explores the reasons for these increasing costs, the burdens of excessive hospital expenditures on the economy; and the government's role in reducing them and eliminating inefficiencies that plague the system.

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