...everyone knows, is very real and deserves the utmost consideration. As the Somers' point out (p. 192), In no other realm of economic life today are payments...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...

...cost control, difficult enough in any case, to come from' . . . In no other realm of economic life are payments guaranteed for costs that are neither...in which no incentive for economy can be discerned . Clearly, Medicare faces stormy days ahead in the entire field of payments to providers. Present arrangements...

...for cost control, difficult enough in any case, to come from? ... ln no other realm of economic life are payments guaranteed for costs that are neither...authority, and in which no incentive for economy can be discemed. . . Clnaily, Medicare faces stormy days ahead in the entire field of payments to providers....