title: Cost containment: an economist's view.
abstract: Rising medical care costs are not the problem they seem to be, in part because quality of care is not considered. The problem may be more the absence of choice of alternative health benefit packages with price differences. The future of health services in the United States will have more competing alternatives requiring physicians to be more cost conscious.
mesh_terms: D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D003363:Cost Control; D004470:Economics, Medical; D014481:United States