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In
the 1970’s replaced the social expansion of the
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1960’s
War on Poverty
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Legislation
was enacted to contain rapid increases in
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health
care expenditures
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Health
Planning Act of 1974 was a major effort in this battle
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designed
to reign in costs by preventing unnecessary expansion
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in
the health care delivery system
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Expansion
of Certificate of Need programs states were able to
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constrain
the expansion of hospitals in particular, the theory
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was
that each new hospital bed increased overall expenditures,
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regardless
of the rational need for the bed
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