"The hospital costs, insurance premiums put a burden on all of us."

For the first year, the running of the hospital cost around £13,000.

Largely driven by the growth in hospital costs, total health care spending increased 7.5 percent.

In addition, the Legislature would change the base year for computing hospital costs.

We had information only on hospital charges, rather than hospital costs.

The demand arises in part from efforts to hold down hospital costs.

They now actually pay a larger share of hospital costs.

A trust fund was set up at a local bank for donations to help with the hospital costs.

The Maryland experience suggests that hospital costs can best be kept down by government control.

The home health care industry has been hailed as a way of reducing hospital costs.