Aaron, Henry J.

The painful prescription : rationing hospital care / Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, c1984. - xii, 161 p. ; 24 cm. - Studies in social economics .

"A study sponsored jointly by the Tufts University School of Medicine and the Brookings Institution."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0815700342 0815700334 (pbk.)

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Hospital care--United States.
Hospital care--Great Britain.
Hospital utilization--United States.
Hospital utilization--Great Britain.
Medical policy--United States.
Medical policy--Great Britain.
Health policy--United States.
Health services needs and demand--Economics--United States.
Cost control.
Economics, Hospital--United States.
State medicine--Great Britain.

RA 981 .A2 A5 1984 / A5 1984

362.1/1/0973

WX 157 A113p