Baumol foresaw that we as a society would have to make difficult choices about the consequences of "cost disease."

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Baumol foresaw that we as a society would have to make difficult choices about the consequences of "cost disease." The title of his 1993 paper sums the problem up: Health Care, Education and the Cost Disease: A Looming Crisis for Public Choice.