title: More states 'go private' to provide services.
abstract: Faced with mounting budget deficits, more states are taking a look at privatization--the closing or downsizing of state-operated psychiatric, rehabilitation and acute-care facilities--as a way of trimming outlays. Officials believe those services often can be provided more cost-effectively in the private sector, a solution that's preferable to reducing services or raising taxes.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Pallarito
mesh_terms: D006783:Hospitals, State / Q000639:trends*; D011332:Privatization / Q000639:trends*; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000639:trends; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States