title: Forum: allocation, misallocation and reallocation of health care resources. Interview by Merit Kimball.
abstract: Calling cost containment efforts to date mostly "appearance ... that is not what the game is about...," a Harvard medical economist sets forth his views about how America has spent--and should be spending--its health care dollars. He suggests directions the country might take toward establishment of a national health insurance policy administered by the states.
mesh_terms: D003361:Cost Allocation; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006295:Health Resources / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D014481:United States