title: Priorities for a national health policy: cost control and disease prevention.
abstract: Despite some progress on the national health care scene, the cost spiral looms as the major problem to be tacked now, forcing moves toward a revamped national health plan into the wings. Health care organizations with access to the administration, however, should design detailed disease prevention plans--which will not require immediate huge expenditures--and should develop the date to show their cost effectiveness.
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D011057:Politics; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D011640:Public Policy; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services