Date of Original Version
12-1978
Type
Article
Published In
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 1978 December; 54(11): 1235–1240
Abstract or Table of Contents
I am an economist among physicians and public health people, But , since we have heard a number of physicians telling us about dollars and cost-benefit analysis, perhaps I can say some things about health . Much of what was said yesterday sounded correct. For example, Dr. Merril Eisenbud said that we have to look at costs and benefits. Dr. Vaun Newill did an excellent job on that. In the 1960s there was a naive notion that it did not cost anything to clean up the environment or perhaps that guilty people would pay the cost. Clearly, that is wrong.