DO HEALTH CARE COSTS MATTER?

Focuses on concerns about the increasing cost of health care in the United States. Effects of economic conditions on costs of medical care; Issue regarding competitiveness in the health care industry; Productivity growth in the entire economy and its impact on purchasing power; Greed of drug and insurance companies to an increasingly aged population; Contribution of lawsuits against doctors, lack of competitiveness in the profession and high earnings of physicians to rising medical care costs.