Controversy about American Hospitals

by J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Rogers J. Hollingsworth

Book Overview

Medical care in the United States cost about $400 billion in 1985. It is big business and the subject of great controversy. During the past decade the hospital, as part of the medical system, has become the focus of much of the controversy. Attention has centered on how to control hospital costs, the large-scale activities of for-profit corporations in providing medical care, the extent to which alternative payment systems for Medicare might alter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844736384
• ISBN13: 9780844736389
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"