How the U.S. spent its health care dollar: 1929-1980.

@article{Berk1988HowTU,
  title={How the U.S. spent its health care dollar: 1929-1980.},
  author={Marc L. Berk and Alan C. Monheit and Mike Hagan},
  journal={Health affairs},
  year={1988},
  volume={7 4},
  pages={
          46-60
        }
}
Prologue: The cost of medical care has become an overriding interest of the health sphere, government, and private payers because medicine has demonstrated a capacity to consume an increasing porti... 
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