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Measuring the Prices of Medical Treatments (Paperback) Loot Price: R647
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Measuring the Prices of Medical Treatments (Paperback): Jack E. Triplett

Measuring the Prices of Medical Treatments (Paperback)

Jack E. Triplett

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How serious is medical care inflation in the United States? For many years, price indexes for medical care have outstripped the overall rate of inflation. For example, between 1986 and 1996, the medical care component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 6.5 percent per year, roughly exceeding the annual increase in the overall CPI during this period by 75 percent. Many economists, however, believe that economic statistics on medical care do not accurately measure medical care price changes because it is especially difficult to construct accurate price indexes for medical markets. Some very recent research, reported in this volume, suggests that --contrary to the usual presumption of runaway medical inflation --prices for at least some medical care interventions are not rising rapidly and may even be falling. Understanding medical care inflation is important for policy issues such as medical care cost containment. Medical care price indexes also affect other economic statistics on medical care, including national accounts and the national health accounts. Understanding economic trends in the medical care sector is vitally dependent on accurate medical care price measures. This volume, the result of a conference cosponsored by the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, brings together state-of-the-art methodological and empirical work on the measurement of medical outcomes and prices. It will be a useful tool for anyone concerned about medical inflation, medical outcomes, the quality of medical treatments, and public policy toward medical cost containment.

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Imprint: Brookings Institution Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 1999
First published: July 1999
Editors: Jack E. Triplett
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-8343-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Hospital administration & management
Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Public finance > General
Books > Money & Finance > Public finance > General
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LSN: 0-8157-8343-4
Barcode: 9780815783435

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