全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w14257
来源ID	Working Paper 14257
	Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?
	Alan M. Garber; Jonathan Skinner
发表日期	2008-08-27
出版年	2008
语种	英语
摘要	The U.S. health system has been described as the most competitive, heterogeneous, inefficient, fragmented, and advanced system of care in the world. In this paper, we consider two questions: First, is the U.S. health care system productively efficient relative to other wealthy countries, in the sense of producing better health for a given bundle of hospital beds, physicians, nurses, and other factor inputs? Second, is the U.S. allocatively efficient relative to other countries, in the sense of providing highly valued care to consumers? For both questions, the answer is most likely no. Although no country can claim to have eliminated inefficiency, the U.S. has fragmented care, high administrative costs, and stands out with regard to heterogeneity in treatment because of race, income, and geography. The U.S. health care system is also more likely to pay for diagnostic tests, treatments, and other forms of care before effectiveness is established and with little consideration of the value they provide. A number of proposed reforms that are designed to ameliorate shortcomings of the U.S. health care system, such as quality improvement initiatives and coverage expansions, are unlikely by themselves to reduce expenditures. Addressing allocative inefficiency is a far more difficult task but central to controlling costs.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w14257
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571947
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Alan M. Garber,Jonathan Skinner. Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?. 2008.

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