Why the Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending Cannot Tell Us Much about the Efficiency or Quality of Our Health Care System
Examining the geographic variation in Medicare and non-Medicare health spending, I find little support for the view that most of the variation can be attributed to differences in practice styles. Instead, I find that socioeconomic factors that affect the need for medical care, as well as interaction...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. - Brookings Institution Press. - (2014) vom: Okt., Seite 1-52 |
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| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Brookings Papers on Economic Activity |
| Schlagworte: | Economics Business Health sciences Behavioral sciences Physical sciences Biological sciences |
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