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Everywhere the rising cost of health services continues, year by year, to outpace the growth of national economies. Should this trend continue, several countries would soon be spending a prohibitive 25 percent of their GNP on health. The problem would solve itself only if there were some limit, not too far removed from current levels, to the demand for health services. No such limit is in sight.This assessment of the dilemma of health policy facing most of the economically developed nations today is based on a survey of 20 nations, including the United States, the Soviet Union, and the . . .
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