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Cost Containment has been for more than a decade one of the major objectives of health care policy in almost all industrial nations. For many experts cost figures and their annual growth rates are the most important criterion to assess the health care sector. To politicians as well as to the public cost containment per se establishes a success of health care policy.
I would like to thank Cornelia Behrens, Fredrich Breyer, and Peter Zweifel for valuable comments.
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Henke, KD. (1992). Cost containment in health care: Justification and consequences. In: Zweifel, P., Frech, H.E. (eds) Health Economics Worldwide. Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2392-1_12
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