title: Health care costs: market forces and reform.
abstract: The cry for health care reform has diminished somewhat. Nevertheless, more changes are forthcoming. For the foreseeable future, health care will demand a rising share of resources. Earlier estimates put the proportion of health expenditures to Gross Domestic Product at almost 17% by the year 2000. Although there is no magic number regarding this proportion, its relative level in the United States strongly suggests that changes need to take place. It would appear that the population prefers that changes be instituted through the private sector, and not through extensive government involvement and regulation.
authors.affiliation: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Vincenzino
mesh_terms: D017048:Health Care Costs; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics*; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States