title: Health care regulation and the economics of federal health care policies.
abstract: To have a positive impact on the health care system in the 1980s, the federal government must undertake fundamental reform and quit relying on inadequate cost-containment regulation while simultaneously supporting policies and programs that are inflationary.
mesh_terms: D002201:Capital Expenditures / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004465:Economic Competition; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control / Q000191:economics*; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000639:trends; D006291:Health Policy; D006761:Hospitals; D007183:Income Tax / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007250:Inflation, Economic; D014481:United States