Measuring the Prices of Medical Treatments

ISBN-13: 9780815783435 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 350 str.

Jack E. Triplett

Opis

How serious is medical care inflation in the USA? For many years, price indexes for medical care have outstripped the overall rate of inflation. 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 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.