title: Can we afford the new medical technologies?
abstract: The shift in concern from improving health care to controlling health care expenditures is examined. The problem of life-prolonging technologies that ultimately don't work and increase the cost of health care is addressed. The need to limit the provision of such treatments is discussed.
authors.affiliation: MIT, Cambridge, MA.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Thurow