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