Abstract

The increasing frequency with which economists are invited to address physician forums and to contribute to medical journals suggests that some important changes are under way in American medicine. The medical leadership is apparently in search of guidance on social and economic trends that are likely to influence the future of medicine. Economists may have something to contribute, and their concern with costs and benefits provides a different perspective. As students of political economy, they can relate the health-care system to the larger society and in making these linkages suggest the potentialities and limits for health reform.Let me begin . . .

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