Learning to Say “No”
- 13 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 311 (24) , 1569-1572
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198412133112410
Abstract
Public and private expenditures on health care rose from 5 to 11 per cent of the gross national product between 1960 and 1983. Although there is no magic formula for determining a precise limit on what a country can afford to spend for health care, there is a limit. Every dollar spent on health care is a dollar that cannot be spent on something else. No set of expenditures can rise faster than the gross national product forever. At some point, health-care expenditures must slow down to the rate of growth of the gross national product.The United States is . . .Keywords
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