Measuring the Prices of Medical Treatments

by Jack E. Triplett, Barry Bosworth, Barry P. Bosworth

Book Overview

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How serious is medical care inflation in the United States? For many years, price indexes for medical care have outstripped the overall rate of inflation. For example, between 1986 and 1996, the medical care component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 6.5 percent per year, roughly exceeding the annual increase in the overall CPI during this period by 75 percent. Many economists, however, believe that economic statistics on medical care do...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815783434
• ISBN13: 9780815783435
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"