...(b) maldistribution of health care facilities and manpower; and (c) increasing cost of health care. Increases in the cost of health care, particularly...health care, and for the substitution of ambulatory and intermediated care for hospital care. (27) While the government is employing a variety of strategies...

...problems in America today. One of the principal statutory findings is pertinent to today's agenda: "Increases in the cost of health care, particularly...presently inadequate incentives for the use of appropriate levels of health care and for the substitution of ambulatory and intermediate care for in-patient hospital...

...maldistribution of health care facilities and manpower, and (3) increasing cost of health care; — increases in the cost of health care, particularly...appropriate alternative levels of health care; and — large segments of the public are lacking in basic knowledge regarding proper personal health care...

...a priority of the Federal Government" (section 2(a)(D). The Congressional findings also noted that increases in the cost of health care, particularly...hospital stays, have been uncontrollable and inflationary (section 2 (a) (4) ) , and that public and private sector responses have not resulted in the restraint...

...uniformly available to all," Ward said. The federal health planning law, however, makes a finding. that "increases in the cost of health care, particularly...there are presently inadequate incentives. .. for the substitution of ambulatory and intermediate care for inpatient hospital care. " Cunning noted that...

...maldistribution of health care facilities and staffing, and (3) increasing cost of health care. — Increases in the cost of health care, particularly...of appropriate alternative levels of health care. — Large segments of the public are lacking in basic knowledge regarding proper personal health care...

...quality enhancement in the Institutional sector. As Congress noted in section 2(a)(4) of Pub. L. 93-641, increases In the cost of health care, particularly...stays, have been uncontrollable and Inflationary. The Increases In hospital costs are absorbing an exaggerated share of available resources. Planning...