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...resources available for medicine. Those resources, though not unlimited, are enormous. After a generation of rising costs, the U.S. now spends more than $1 billion every day on health care, 10.8% of the gross national product. Once a country spends more than 10% of G.N.P on health, says Robert Rushmer, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington who has studied medical costs in Europe, it begins imposing restrictions on who gets what. "We have to come to grips with the fact that our technical abilities have outstripped our social, economic and political policies," says Rushmer...
...where has all the money gone?" asks one of Rushmer's colleagues, James Speer, a professor of biomedical history at Washington. "We are not living all that much longer. These expenditures can't be understood in the health of people, but in the creation of a very large industry." Harvey Fineberg, dean of Harvard's School of Public Health, attributes fully one-third of the past decade's increase in Medicare costs to the increased use of high-tech medicine, particularly surgical and diagnostic procedures. "I don't mean to downplay the bravery of this individual," Fineberg says of last...