Salkever, David S. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1489-1535). 2000
With the spread of cost-based hospital payment systems in the United States in the 1960s, and the implementation of the … Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1966, rapidly rising hospital costs imposed unexpected pressures on Federal and state budgets … hospital investment and a significant minority of states enacted hospital price regulation (rate-setting) laws. As strong …