TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baumol,William J.
AU  - De Ferranti,David M.
TI  - The cost disease: why computers get cheaper and health care doesn't 
SN  - 9780300179286 (hbk.)
AV  - RA410.53 .B386 2012
U1  - 338.520973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Medical care, Cost of
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-235) and index; Part I: The survivable cost disease. Why health-care costs keep rising ; What causes the cost disease, and will it persist? ; The future has arrived ; Yes, we can afford it ; Dark sides of the disease : terrorism and environmental destruction ; Common misunderstandings of the cost disease : cost versus quality and financial versus "physical" output measures ; The cost disease and global health -- Part 2: Technical aspects of the cost disease. Hybrid industries and the cost disease ; Productivity growth, employment allocation, and the special case of business services -- Part 3: Opportunities for cutting health-care costs. Business services in health care ; Yes, we can cut health-care costs even if we cannot reduce their growth rate -- Conclusions : Where are we headed and what should we do?
ER  -