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The Impact of Increased Utilization of HIV Drugs on Longevity and Medical Expenditures : An Assessment Based on Aggregate U.S. Time-Series Data

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010

increased drug utilization on the life expectancy and drug and hospital expenditure of HIV/AIDS patients, using aggregate (U … prescriptions, the CDC%u2019s AIDS Public Information Data Set, and data from AHRQ%u2019s Nationwide Inpatient Sample.Estimates of … mortality models imply that actual life expectancy of HIV/AIDS patients in 2001 was 13.4 years higher than it would have been if …

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Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates

Baicker, Katherine - 2011

The fraction of GDP devoted to health care in the United States is the highest in the world and rising rapidly. Recent economic studies have highlighted the growing value of health improvements, but less attention has been paid to the efficiency costs of tax-financed spending to pay for such...

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Cost of Service Regulation in U.S. Health Care : Minimum Medical Loss Ratios

Cicala, Steve - 2017

A health insurer's Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) is the share of premiums spent on medical claims. The Affordable Care Act introduced minimum MLR provisions for all health insurance sold in fully-insured commercial markets, thereby capping insurer profit margins, but not levels. While intended to...

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Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Health Care in 2040

Fogel, Robert W. - 2010

One of the most important debates among health economists in rich nations is whether advances in biotechnology will spare their health care systems from a financial crisis. We must consider that prevalence rates of chronic diseases declined during the twentieth century and that this rate of...

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Hospital Competition, Quality, and Expenditures in the U.S. Medicare Population

Colla, Carrie - 2016

Theoretical models of competition with fixed prices suggest that hospitals should compete by increasing quality of care for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition is limited to heart attacks, which in the U.S....

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Medical Spending of the U.S. Elderly

De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2015

We use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to document the medical spending of Americans aged 65 and older. We find that medical expenses more than double between ages 70 and 90 and that they are very concentrated: the top 10% of all spenders are responsible for 52% of...

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Sources of U.S. Longevity Increase, 1960-1997

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021

Between 1960 and 1997, life expectancy at birth of Americans increased approximately 10% - from 69.7 to 76.5 years - and it has been estimated that the value of life extension during this period nearly equaled the gains in tangible consumption. We investigate whether an aggregate health...

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Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality Among U.S. Elderly

Fuchs, Victor R.; McClellan, Mark B.; Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2021

This paper examines 313 U.S. areas for differences in medical care utilization and mortality of whites ages 65-84 in 1990. The variables included in the analysis are education, real income, cigarette sales, obesity, air pollution, percent black, and dummy variables for seven regions and five...

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The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality : Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Population

Skinner, Jonathan S.; Zhou, Weiping - 2021

Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured by Medicare expenditures, the answer is yes. During 1987-2001, low income households experienced an increase of 78 percent ($2624) in per capita expenditures, double the...

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Politics and Health Care Spending in the United States

Cooper, Zack - 2017

We uncover political dynamics that reward and reinforce increases in US health spending by studying the passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization (MMA). We focus on a provision added to the MMA, which allowed hospitals to apply for temporary Medicare payment increases. Hospitals represented by...

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