To control rapidly rising medical costs from the 1960s to the early 1980s, federal and state governments used regulatory approaches. Which of these regulatory approaches was not used?
1) Health planning legislation placed controls on hospital investment.
2) Federal legislation prohibited the development of for-profit hospitals for five years.
3) Many states used hospital rate regulation.
4) Medicaid reduced payments to hospitals and physicians, and Medicare limited physician fee increases.

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