...Somers' pointed out in their book Medicare and the Hospitals: "In no other realm of economic life today are payments guaranteed for costs that are neither...which no incentive for economy can be discerned." (Somers and Somers, Medicare and the Hospitals, 1967, p. 192.) Negotiated programs have also taken...

...the utmost consideration. As the Somers' point out (p. 192), In no other realm of economic life today are payments guaranteed for costs that are neither...in which no incentive for economy can be discerned. Therefore, all of the authors' proposals — regardless of how strong or weak — should be given serious...