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Value and Increased Cost Sharing in the American Health Care System
Author(s) -
Chernew Michael,
Fendrick A. Mark
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
health services research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.706
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1475-6773
pISSN - 0017-9124
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2008.00847.x
Subject(s) - citation , value (mathematics) , health care , cost sharing , library science , computer science , operations research , medicine , political science , law , nursing , mathematics , machine learning
It is not news to readers of this journal that Americans pay more than citizens of other countries for health care. Moreover, along many dimensions of quality it appears that we receive less health in return for this spending. Media reports commonly mention that our health care system is in crisis (Halper 2008).