"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. Generic utilization rates have risen substantially since the enactment of The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act...

As health care reform evolves and takes shape, comparative effectiveness research appears to be one of the central topics on the national health care agenda. Over the past couple of years, comparative effectiveness has been explicitly incorporated in over ten bills. For example, the passage of...