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Constraining National Health Care Expenditures: Achieving Quality Care at an Affordable Cost

HRD-85-105 Published: Sep 30, 1985. Publicly Released: Sep 30, 1985.
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GAO reviewed the factors which contributed to increases in national health care expenditures to determine: (1) what efforts have been attempted in the public and private sectors to constrain expenditures; and (2) what methods could be used to minimize the costs of the health care system without reducing the access to quality care.

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