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Eight Decades of Discouragement: The History of Health Care Cost Containment in the USA

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  • Jost Timothy Stoltzfus

    (Robert L. Willett Family Professor Washington and Lee University College of Law)

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This chapter traces the history of attempts at cost control in the United States from the origins of our modern health care financing system in the 1930s and 1940s, through health care cost regulation in the 1970s, and the deregulatory 1980s and 1990s, to the Affordable Care Act.

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  • Jost Timothy Stoltzfus, 2012. "Eight Decades of Discouragement: The History of Health Care Cost Containment in the USA," Forum for Health Economics & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 15(3), pages 53-82, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:fhecpo:v:15:y:2012:i:3:p:53-82:n:3
    DOI: 10.1515/fhep-2012-0009
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    1. Nicolas Ziebarth, 2014. "Assessing the effectiveness of health care cost containment measures: evidence from the market for rehabilitation care," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 41-67, March.

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