The Future of US Health Care: Is Medicare Really Better at “Saving” Money?

IF 0.4 Q4 ECONOMICS

Economists Voice Pub Date : 2014-11-01 DOI:10.1515/EV-2013-0013

A. Edlin, D. Goldman, Adam A. Leive

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Abstract

Abstract Paul Krugman, Robert Reich, and others see Medicare as a panacea. Krugman, for example, points out that average Medicare costs have grown only 400 percent while private insurance costs have grown 700 percent. Should the US move to Medicare for all? The case is not as clear as such statistics suggest.

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美国医疗保健的未来:医疗保险真的更“省钱”吗?

保罗·克鲁格曼、罗伯特·赖希等人将医疗保险视为灵丹妙药。例如，克鲁格曼指出，医疗保险的平均成本只增长了400%，而私人保险的成本却增长了700%。美国应该转向全民医保吗?情况并不像这些统计数字所显示的那样清楚。

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1.10

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