"Public Attitudes about Health-CareControlling U.S. Costs: A Lesson in National Schizophre- nia" Robert J. Blendon and Drew E.Medical Costs Altman, in The New England Journal of Medicine (Aug. 30, 1984), 1440 Main St.,
P.O. Box 9140, Waltham, Mass. 02254.
Faced with a hefty and fast-growing national bill for medical care, Americans are telling public-opinion pollsters that they would wel- come an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system-as long as no one asks them to make any sacrifices.
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