Input and Output in Medical Care
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1992
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-8179-5332-4 (ISBN)
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-8179-5332-4 (ISBN)
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Medical care has become a major public policy issue because of the rapid growth in spending on medical care. Most proposals to remedy the situation involve further exapnding the government's role in medicine. This essay suggests that the supposed cure is instead a major source of the problem.
Medical care has become a major public policy issue because of the rapid growth in spending on medical care and concerns about the universal availability of medical care. Most proposals to remedy the situation involve further exapnding the government's role in medicine. This essay suggests that the supposed cure is instead a major source of the problem. As a government involvement in medical care has grown, costs and physical input into medicine have risen sharply, while output has either fallen or risen far less rapidly. For example, hospital personnel per occupied bed multiplied nearly sevenfold from 1946 to 1989, and cost per patient day, adjusted for inflation, an astounding twenty-six-fold, while the number of occupied beds per thousand population fell by more than half. The essay outlines a solution involving the privatization of medical care and a major reduction in the role of government. The solution, however desirable, may not be politically feasible because of the opposition of persons who have a vested interest in the present system.
Medical care has become a major public policy issue because of the rapid growth in spending on medical care and concerns about the universal availability of medical care. Most proposals to remedy the situation involve further exapnding the government's role in medicine. This essay suggests that the supposed cure is instead a major source of the problem. As a government involvement in medical care has grown, costs and physical input into medicine have risen sharply, while output has either fallen or risen far less rapidly. For example, hospital personnel per occupied bed multiplied nearly sevenfold from 1946 to 1989, and cost per patient day, adjusted for inflation, an astounding twenty-six-fold, while the number of occupied beds per thousand population fell by more than half. The essay outlines a solution involving the privatization of medical care and a major reduction in the role of government. The solution, however desirable, may not be politically feasible because of the opposition of persons who have a vested interest in the present system.
Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science, was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1977 to 2006. He passed away on Nov. 16, 2006. He was also the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1946 to 1976, and a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981.
| Reihe/Serie | Essays in Public Policy |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Stanford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8179-5332-9 / 0817953329 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8179-5332-4 / 9780817953324 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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