Effects on Utilization of Essentially Costless Medical Care.
Abstract
The problem of potential overuse of the health care delivery system has plagued governmental efforts to provide comprehensive care on a prepaid basis on a statewide or nationwide scale. The overuse would theoretically be generated when prepayment dropped the out-of-pocket cost of medical care to zero. The present study contrasts lengths-of-stay under the conventional system of payment with lengths-of-stay at a military hospital, and derives partial in and out patient utilization rates for the population served at the relatively large military hospital (where health care is essentially free) and draws preliminary conclusions and conjectures. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0761384
Entities
People
- David Francis Walsh
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School