Can we have too much health care?(Health and Wealth) From: Daedalus | Date: September 22, 1994| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1994 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The escalating cost of medical care continues at the sacrifice of economic development. An analysis of costs for health care shows that too often clinical procedures or diagnostics testing add unnecessary costs to the health service. The problem lies with the perceptions of the patient as to what is health care as well as with the medical personnel. The sense of well-being that medical care is supposed to bring to the patient may come at an unnecessarily high price.

THE HEALTH-CARE INDUSTRY USES resources, and large amounts of them in most industrialized nations. Recently, health-care ...

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