FROM ISSUE NUMBER 51 - SPRING 1978 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
How much should we spend to save a life?
IN the last decade or so, Uncle Sam has become increasingly interested in keeping us alive. Separate agencies have been established to deal with traffic, consumer, environmental, and occupational safety. Medicare and Medicaid have come into being. And there have been substantial increases in appropriations to reduce maladies such as kidney failure, cancer, and sickle-cell anemia.
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