title: Synopsis '78: hospital cost containment stalled; few health bills pass.
abstract: During 1978, hospitals brought to Capitol Hill the heaviest barrage of information that Congress has ever seen about rising health care costs, the causes of those costs, and what is being done about them.
mesh_terms: D000573:American Hospital Association; D003363:Cost Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States