Uncovering waste in US healthcare

There is widespread agreement that the US healthcare system wastes as much as 5% of GDP, yet much less agreement on the source of the waste. This paper uses the effectively random assignment of patients to ambulance companies to generate comparisons across similar patients treated at different hospi...

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Main Authors: Doyle, Joseph J. (Author), Graves, John A. (Author), Gruber, Jonathan (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV, 2020-08-07T20:01:42Z.
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