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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w23068 |
来源ID | Working Paper 23068 |
Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? Evidence from Prescription Drugs | |
Margaret Kyle; Heidi L. Williams | |
发表日期 | 2017-01-23 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Alan Garber and Jonathan Skinner (2008) famously conjectured that the US health care system was “uniquely inefficient” relative to other countries. We test this idea using cross-country data on prescription drug sales newly linked with an arguably objective measure of relative therapeutic benefits, or drug quality. Specifically, we investigate how higher and lower quality drugs diffuse in the US relative to Australia, Canada, Switzerland, and the UK. Our tabulations suggest that lower quality drugs diffuse more in the US relative to high quality drugs, compared to each of our four comparison countries – consistent with Garber and Skinner’s conjecture. |
主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23068 |
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/580742 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Margaret Kyle,Heidi L. Williams. Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? Evidence from Prescription Drugs. 2017. |
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