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Journal of Economic Literature Vol. 62 No. 1 2024

Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation

Jonathan Skinner

Dartmouth University

Abstract

Jonathan Skinner of Dartmouth University reviews “Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation” by James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Considers why the US health-care system is becoming neither better nor more affordable over time, contending that the health sector generates the wrong kinds of innovation by making it easy to profit from low-value innovations and difficult to do the same from innovations that reduce care costs.”

DOI
10.1257/jel.62.1.317.r9
Volume
62
Issue
1
Pages
330-332
Language
en
Sources
openalex crossref

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