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The United States spends 8.6 percent of its total gross national product (the highest percentage in the world) on health care systems (Sidel and Sidel, 1977); yet it ranks nineteenth in the world in providing care necessary to decrease mortality and morbidity rates. Conversely there are countries such as Great Britain, whose expenditures are closer to 5 percent, that rank higher in the provision of quality medical care (Silver, 1976). Considerable medical expenditure in the United States goes into duplication of equipment and personnel in a single community and even within a single hospital.
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Saaty, T.L., Vargas, L.G. (1982). Optimum Determination of Hospital Requirements. In: The Logic of Priorities. International Series in Management Science/Operations Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3383-0_9
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