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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kyle, Margaret, Williams, Heidi L
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: American Economic Association 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114277
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4364-1505