title: It's time to set national health care priorities.
abstract: The chairman of a hospital cost containment committee faces the fact that the national concern over health care costs will mean reducing the quality and quantity of U.S. medical care. He suggests that instead of setting general constraints, the government and health experts should advise eliminating or reducing specific services based on their relative merits. To facilitate this decision-making process, he groups medical services into six categories for review.
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006285:Health Planning / Q000191:economics*; D006291:Health Policy; D006292:Health Priorities / Q000191:economics*; D006296:Health Services / Q000145:classification*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States