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... cost hospital care . Since 1950 the cost of keeping a patient for one day in a community hospital in the United States has risen by 500 percent.45 The bill for patient care in the major university hospitals has risen even faster , 43 ...
... cost hospital care . Since 1950 the cost of keeping a patient for one day in a community hospital in the United States has risen by 500 percent.45 The bill for patient care in the major university hospitals has risen even faster , 43 ...
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... costs increased three times faster than the number of people served . In the last four years hospital insurance benefits have almost doubled in cost , and physicians ' fees have increased almost twice as fast as had been planned.48 ...
... costs increased three times faster than the number of people served . In the last four years hospital insurance benefits have almost doubled in cost , and physicians ' fees have increased almost twice as fast as had been planned.48 ...
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... costs are shooting up . 50 The phenomenal rise in cost of health services in the United States has been explained in different ways : some blame irrational planning , 51 others the higher cost of the new gimmicks that people want in ...
... costs are shooting up . 50 The phenomenal rise in cost of health services in the United States has been explained in different ways : some blame irrational planning , 51 others the higher cost of the new gimmicks that people want in ...
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