title: Can we control health care costs?
abstract: The health care system will never go bankrupt, the author of this article asserts. But the expense of maintaining it is putting such a strain on our resources that bankruptcy sometimes seems not so far off. The controls and devices we use, like certificate-of-need requirements and health management organizations, obviously have not slowed the rise in costs. We need to focus our attention on three elements in the picture that can do the most about curbing expenditures: the health care administrator, the physician, and the business organization (the labor union as well as the corporation). The author offers suggestions for action from these quarters.
mesh_terms: D002567:Certificate of Need; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics