[ExI] USA Health Costs

David C. Harris dharris234 at mindspring.com
Wed Jun 3 23:35:38 UTC 2009


Tom Nowell wrote:
> Luckily, I have to hand the details of 2008 research into overspending on medicine:
> A team led by Elliott Fisher of Dartmouth Medical School published a paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine vol 138 p288 comparing medicare outcomes and the headline result was this: "For every 10% of additional medicare spending on hip fracture, colorectal cancer and heart attacks, death rates over 5 years rose by between 0.3 and 1.2 per cent."
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Did they control for how sick and aged the people were?  Sicker people 
could need more service spending but still be more likely to die earlier. 



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