Hospital Costs and Health Insurance

by Martin Feldstein

The cost of hospital care has grown so rapidly in the past thirty years that it is threatening to bend our economy completely out of shape. A hospital bed that cost $16 per day in 1950 cost $214 per day by 1978--an increase of more than 1200 per cent What is the cause of this fantastic inflation, which has been far higher than for any other major good or service? In this pathbreaking book, Martin Feldstein sets forth a novel explanation, provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674406753
• ISBN13: 9780674406759
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"