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Science 26 September 1975:
Vol. 189. no. 4208, pp. 1071 - 1072
DOI: 10.1126/science.189.4208.1071
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Preventive Medicine: Legislation Calls for Health Education

Barbara J. Culliton

It appears that therapeutic medicine, important as it is, may have reached a point of diminishing returns. The 12 to 15 percent increases that we are adding to our hundred billion dollar health care bill each year—even the portion that is not caused by inflation—apparently have only a marginal utility.


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