This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of heart attack patients. We relate in …-hospital deaths to in-hospital end-of-life spending and post-discharge deaths to post-discharge health-care spending. In our analysis … with visitors and stayers with recent movers from a different region. In regions with higher health-care spending mortality …

This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of heart attack patients. We relate in …-hospital deaths to in-hospital end-oflife spending and post-discharge deaths to post-discharge health-care spending. In our analysis … with visitors and stayers with recent movers from a different region. In regions with higher health-care spending mortality …