The Concentration of Medical Spending: An Update

David M. Cutler & Ellen Meara
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Copyright 2001
ISBN 0226902846
Themes Economics Aging
Book: Themes in the Economics of Aging
Book editor: David A. Wise
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: The Economics of Aging
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  • David M. Cutler and Ellen Meara, Themes in the Economics of Aging (University of Chicago Press, 2001), chap. 7, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/themes-economics-aging/concentration-medical-spending-update.

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In the last two decades, Medicare spending has doubled in real terms despite the fact that the health of Medicare...

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