The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

In promoting health care reform in 2009, President Obama stated, “when it comes to health care spending, we are on an … “unsustainable course” thirteen years later. How did we get here? This article examines one facet of our health care system …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that …, and that at least a third of geographic differences in healthcare utilization can be explained by differences in average …

The paper studies the incentive for providers to invest in new health care technologies under alternative payment … study a specific technology. -- Health Care ; Investments …

In the US healthcare system, patients of different socio-economic status (SES) often receive disparate treatment for … and out-of-pocket) controlling for medical conditions, demographics, health, and insurance, separately by sex, education … not explained by differences in health, insurance status, or ability-to-pay, suggesting they arise due to discrimination …

This paper provides a critique of the U.S. Health Care system compared to other OECD (Organization for Economic Co … Product) to generating those results. Second, we examine whether increased levels of government healthcare funding are … associated with longer life expectancy. Third, we discuss the question of whether healthcare spending is not being properly …

We use a sample of OECD countries in order to better understand why the US health care expenditure as a percentage of … its Gross Domestic Product ("health care effort") is so far above any other. To this end we employ a descriptive cross … exploratory hypothesis that the availability of a universal public health coverage would increase the price elasticity of demand …

background, revealing an important role that vaccination efforts can play in narrowing inequities in health and healthcare. More …The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in … practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types of policies or innovations that are effective in shaping healthcare …

Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U ….S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and …