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How Interested Are Americans In New Medical Technologies? A Multicountry Comparison

The rapidly rising cost of health care has been an important policy concern in many industrialized countries. The continuing explosion of medical research and increased use of medical technology are believed to be important factors in driving costs upward.¹ This has been a particularly important issue for Medicare, the largest U.S. government health care program, which serves a population that uses medical technologies at a high rate.²

Compared with hospitals in most European countries, U.S. hospitals perform a far greater number of catheterizations, angioplasties, and bypass surgeries. Also, the United States has more high-tech equipment, such as magnetic resonance imaging . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Research Findings

 
Interest in and support for new medical discoveries.Interest in new inventions and scientific discoveries.Self-assessed knowledge about new medical discoveries.Expectations for medicine.Comparisons with other research.

Implications For U.S. Health Policy

 
Medicare.Research and development.U.S. vs. Canada.

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