TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe cost of medical care
AU  - Dreifuss FE
Y1  - 1969/09/29
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160260061027
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2057
EP  - 2057
VL  - 209
IS  - 13
N2  - To the Editor:— 
    The recent furor over physicians who collected what appeared to be exorbitant sums of money from alleged Medicaid abuse aroused in me a curious feeling of having seen it all happen before. It was not just a déjà-vu hallucination because it happened before in New Zealand in 1938. After the depression years, Prime Minister Savage and Finance Minister Nash of the newly elected Labor Party introduced the Social Security medical scheme. This was all-embracing and paralleled the efforts of secretaries Ribicoff and Cohen in this country in the last decade. This might be known as phase I, or the introduction. One thing which characterized phase I was the reluctance either through ignorance or design to apprise anyone of what such a scheme would entail in terms of costs. While the New Zealanders might be excused because theirs was the first such program in the world, this excuse
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160260061027
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160260061027
ER  -