title: Congressmen give AHA economics lesson.
abstract: For years, Congress has been promising to balance the federal budget. Such talk has become commonplace and easy to ignore. However, if the Congressmen who addressed the American Hospital Association's Symposium on Federal Relations are typical, it's time to sit up and take notice. They mean business, they have a tough new law to prove it, and the consequences for health care providers could be dire.
mesh_terms: D000573:American Hospital Association; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States