Ledley R S, Thiagarajan T R, Landau T P
Science. 1978 Dec 1;202(4371):979-82. doi: 10.1126/science.715453.
The government proposes "common sense" regulations to help contain rising health costs due to the increasing use of high-technology procedures, such as computerized tomography scanning. Two illustrations are given showing that such ad hoc regulations may have the effect of increasing costs and are certainly far from the optimum obtained by known methods of operations research.
政府提议出台“常识性”法规，以帮助控制因高科技程序（如计算机断层扫描）使用增加而不断攀升的医疗成本。文中给出了两个例子，表明此类临时法规可能会产生增加成本的效果，而且肯定远未达到通过已知运筹学方法所能实现的最优效果。
