McNerney W J
West J Med. 1980 May;132(5):385-91.
For Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, cost containment is not a new concern but an activity that has been carried on for years. It has now been given new emphasis by the urgencies of inflation and the new focus of national attention on health care costs as one of its more conspicuous phenomena-chiefly a result of the inflation but often mistaken for, and mislabeled as, a cause.
对于蓝十字蓝盾计划而言,成本控制并非新问题,而是一项已持续多年的活动。如今,由于通货膨胀的紧迫性以及国家将医疗保健成本作为更为显著的现象之一予以新的关注焦点(主要是通货膨胀的结果,但常被误认为是原因并被错误归类),成本控制又有了新的重点。