Public Attitudes about Health-Care Costs

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Independent forecasts suggest that despite all that is now being done to slow the growth of U.S. health-care costs — the enactment of prospective payment for Medicare (diagnosis-related groups [DRGs]); increasing enrollment in health-maintenance organizations (HMOs), now 7 per cent of the population; hospital rate setting in 12 states; and other changes — the nation's health-care expenditures will increase from $322 billion in 1982 to $690 billion in 1990 and to $1.9 trillion by the year 2000 (14 per cent of the gross national product).1 , 2 This means an average increase of $50 billion a year and a doubling of the . . .

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