The Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men

Eric Rasmusen ()

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Abstract: Richard Posner suggests several arguments for increasing health care spending on males and reducing it on females in his book, Aging and Old Age . I offer a new formalization of his verbal argument.

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Date: 1996-07-24
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