Abstract: Despite highly publicized recognition in the 1970s that a health care financing crisis existed in the United States, the crisis has gone unabated. In this review of the recent health care experience, I discuss the federal and other initiatives that were taken in the 1970s to curb health care cost increases and why they failed. I then review transformations that are currently altering the health care delivery and payment system in this country. I conclude with a discussion of three possible scenarios for the U.S. health care system at the end of the century. In the absence of a grass-roots acceptance of the limitations of medical intervention, it seems likely that total outlays will continue to increase. That is, we are probably in for "more of the same."
Publication Year: 1985
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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