The Unindicted Conspirator: High Healthcare Spending and the Rise of Third-Party Payment

John Graham
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Annals of Computational Economics, 2017

Abstract: Healthcare spending in the United States is dominated by government and insurers, which are collectively called “third-party payers.†In 1960, patients controlled how almost 50 cents of each dollar spent on health care was paid. That number is now down to

Date: 2017
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