Healthcare policy and economics

1. What are some of the reasons for the increase in demand for medical services

since 1965?

2. How did hospital payment methods in the 1960s and 1970s affect hospitals’ incentives

for efficiency and investment policy?

3. What have been the federal government’s choices to reduce the greater-than-projected

Medicare expenditures?

4. What events occurred during the 1980s in both the public and private sectors to

make the delivery of medical services price competitive?

for your references:

• CHAPTER 1: THE RISE OF MEDICAL EXPENDITURE
• CHAPTER 2: HOW MUCH SHOULD WE SPEND ON MEDICAL CARE?

Last Updated on May 10, 2019