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Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan

Cutler, David M. (contributor); Wise, David A. (ed.); … - 2006

Recent data show wide disparity between Japan and the United States in the effectiveness of their health care systems …. Japan spends close to the lowest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care among OECD countries, the United … States spends the highest, yet life expectancies in Japan are among the world’s longest. Clearly, a great deal can be learned …

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The asset cost of poor health

Poterba, James M.; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David A. - 2010

"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in the first nine waves of the Health and...

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Health care spending growth and the future of US tax rates

Baicker, Katherine; Skinner, Jonathan - 2011

"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. The fraction of GDP devoted to health care in the United States is the highest in the world and rising rapidly. Recent economic studies...

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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States : Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?

Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh; Shepard, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We suggest that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market failures will propagate inefficiencies and are not likely to facilitate...

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Investigations in the Economics of Aging

Andreyeva, Tatiana (contributor); Banks, James (contributor) - 2012

One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in life. Building on findings from earlier...

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Analyses in the Economics of Aging

Börsch-Supan, Axel (contributor); Case, Anne (contributor); … - 2005

Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement...

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Pensions in the U.S. Economy

Bernheim, B. Douglas (contributor); Bodie, Zvi (contributor) - 1988

Pensions in the U.S. Economy is the fourth in a series on pensions from the National Bureau of Economic Research. For both economists and policymakers, this volume makes a valuable contribution to current research on pensions and the economics of the elderly. The contributors report on...

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