Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? Evidence from Prescription Drugs
Alan Garber and Jonathan Skinner (2008) famously conjectured that the US health care system was "uniquely inefficient" relative to other countries. We test this idea using cross-country data on prescription drug sales newly linked with an arguably objective measure of relative therapeutic...
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American Economic Association
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114277 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4364-1505 |