This chapter provides a conceptual and empirical examination of health care spending
growth (as opposed to the level of health care spending). Given that an equilibrium …

Researchers have disagreed about factors driving up health care spending since the 1980s.
One camp, led by Kenneth Thorpe, identifies rising numbers of people being treated for …

Despite earlier forecasts to the contrary, US health care spending growth has slowed in the
past four years, continuing a trend that began in the early 2000s. In this article we attempt to …

A broad consensus holds that increased medical capability—technology—is the primary
driver of health spending growth. However, technology does not expand independently of …

This paper updates one we published in 2003, describing the implications of continued
health care spending growth for the consumption of nonhealth goods and services. Our …

ABSTRACT In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival
rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any …

We present a dynamic general equilibrium model of the US economy and the medical sector
in which the adoption of new medical treatments is endogenous and the demand for medical …

This paper argues that increases in medical spending growth are not necessarily causes for
alarm or reasons for strong action. Especially in the private sector, increases in employers' …

Abstract In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates,
yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any other …

The pace of health spending growth slowed in 2003 for the first time in seven years, driven
in part by a slowdown in public spending growth. US health care spending rose 7.7 percent …