Medicine's Dilemmas: Infinite Needs versus Finite Resources

Can the United States provide a health care program that offers a comprehensive package of the highest-quality health benefits to all Americans while containing health care costs? In this important book, Dr. William L. Kissick says that it cannot: no society in the world has sufficient resources to provide all the health services its population is capable of utilizing.

Dr. Kissick was an active participant in the drafting of Medicare legislation in the 1960s and for the past twenty-five year...