High-tech health care and society's ability to pay.
The nation's failure to admit that it cannot afford everything medical science has invented has led to its failure to contain healthcare cost. To avert a collapse of the system, citizens and policy makers must come to grips with the fact that they cannot do everything for everyone. In fact, more lives may be saved by ensuring less expensive preventive health care for all Americans.
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Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues, University of Denver, CO.
D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006292:Health Priorities; D006752:Hospital Planning; D009922:Oregon; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D012106:Research; D013675:Technology, High-Cost / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States