Schroeder S A
Consultant. 1987 Mar;27(3):68-72, 76.
Although the rising cost of US medicine actually reflects the "good news" about the improved quality and availability of health care today, physicians are increasingly being pressed to achieve cost containment. The causes of the problem are identified as supply-and-demand factors that have been obscured during more economically abundant periods, but that now are forcing reevaluation of such accepted practices as fee-for-service payment. Evaluation of these factors leads to suggestions for measures that could help to reduce costs.
尽管美国医疗成本的上升实际上反映了如今医疗保健质量提高和可及性改善的“好消息”，但医生们越来越受到控制成本的压力。该问题的成因被确定为供需因素，这些因素在经济较为充裕的时期被掩盖了，但现在正迫使人们重新评估诸如按服务收费等公认的做法。对这些因素的评估产生了有助于降低成本的措施建议。
