Longevity and Medical Costs
- 13 July 1967
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 277 (2) , 71-78
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196707132770205
Abstract
IN an excellent article on financing of medical care Somers1 points out that medical care is now our third largest industry, costing an estimated $44,000,000,000 in 1966, and exceeded only by agriculture and construction, the former costing about the same as medical care, and the latter roughly one and a half times as much. War, at $70,000,000,000, is not counted as an industry. Furthermore, medical care is increasing so fast in its demands for person nel that by 1970, three years from now, "projections indicate that either health services or education will be the nation's largest consumer of manpower." These . . .Keywords
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- Financing of Medical Care in the United StatesNew England Journal of Medicine, 1966
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