Abstract International transport costs do have an additive part. How large is it? Does it matter? This article provides new answers to these questions. Using information contained in the US imports flows from 1974 2019, we develop empirical model that disentangles ad-valorem and components of international costs. The per-unit component represents a sizeable share total costs, between 30% 45% de...

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Growth in U.S. health spending has historically been associated with growth in prices paid to health care inputs in excess of economywide inflation and to increases in the employment of health inputs. Increases in input prices largely result in transfers from some citizens to others, while increases in employment mean less of other outputs--which is harmful if those other outputs are more valua...

The following overview knits together a collection of articles that focus on prescription drug issues as they relate to the Medicare Program. In general, the articles examine the following themes: drug cost management; drug cost estimation, and racial disparities in drug coverage and use. These commentaries provide information on private-sector experience in administering a drug benefit, models...

A s Congress and the Clinton administration move into a new round of balanced-budget wrangling, Medicare .\m\ hospital costs will figure prominently in it. To be sure, the number targets for total Medicare savings are lower this year than they were in 1995, but they would hit hospitals particularly hard. Although many analysts predict another stalemate—or at least no agreement until after the N...

OBJECTIVE To compare the direct and indirect costs of laparoscopic and open appendicectomy. DESIGN Randomised study. SETTING University hospital, Sweden. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Total costs for a defined period of time for each option. RESULTS 102 patients were randomised and 99 were included in the final analysis. All patients had completely recovered within two months of operation. Disp...

Illegal immigration and healthcare costs both continue to rise and cause healthcare providers to resort to increasingly desperate measures to control uncompensated care costs. This Comment focuses on the newest cost-shifting tactic—hospitals transporting uninsured, undocumented immigrants to their native countries. The story of Luis Alberto Jiménez dramatizes this new form of hospital cost cont...