Next Shift with Gabriel Winant
The Dig
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A Capital Expansion in Health Care
By the end of the seventies, what i was describing as a kind of increasing working class helth care utilization phenomenon, it had n to the point that pittsburg generated a one point six inpatient hospital days per capita. A capital expansion in health care triples from 19 79 o 19 80. By the early eighties, is just growing at an extreme rate. And this becomes a problem for federal policy makers because of the way that it manifests in the form of a cost inflation for the medicare budget.
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