national health care spending

Yay!! My favorite piece of research, the statistical brief on concentration in health care spending, arrives from AHRQ for 2017.

Another paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research examines monopsony power in health care.

The 2017 Health Care Cost Institute report on health spending finds that price is again a dominant factor in trend.

An article in Health Affairs once again tries to reinforce the point that the health spending issue in the US is due to prices, not utilization.

A report sponsored by several groups tries to correlate market structure and health spending.

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms that the primary cause of greater health spending in the US than in other countries is high prices.

An analysis in Health Affairs confirms that most people actually don’t need health insurance, because they have little health spending.

CMS’ Office of the Actuary’s new projections on health spending show above GDP growth as far as the eye can see.

It is NBER week, starting with a review of a paper on a revised method for analyzing changes in national health spending.

The 2015 Health Care Cost Institute report on cost trends for employer-sponsored health insurance has been released.

Research published in Health Affairs evaluates health spending trends by cost categories such as labor.