Download or read book The Cost of Catastrophic Illness written by Howard Birnbaum and published by Great Source Education Group. This book was released on 1978 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the cost and financing of medical care with regard to serious and prolonged disease in the USA - reviews illnesses involving heavy expenditure, assesses the number of persons spending large amounts by income and age, etc. Analyses health insurance, considers health policy measures needed to improve health care and includes research methodology. Bibliography pp. 95 to 104, diagrams and statistical tables.