Medical-care expenditures have been rising rapidly, accounting for over 17 percent of GDP in 2012. In this study, we assess the sources of the rising medical-care expenditures in the commercial sector. We employ a novel framework for decomposing expenditure growth into four components at the...

Panel data and Hsiao's version of Granger non-causality tests are used to revisit the relationship between GDP and aggregate health care spending, their growth rate series and de-trended series. The possible causality is assumed to be valid in either or in both directions. For the sample of 34...