Who Pays for Health Care Costs? The Effects of Health Care Prices on Wages
Daniel R. Arnold, Christopher Whaley
Abstract
Leverages geographic variation in health care price growth caused by changes in hospital market structure, and in particular, mergers, to test the impact of health care prices on wages and benefit design.
Topics & Concepts
Health careBusinessTest (biology)Geographic variationHealth care costDemographic economicsLabour economicsEconomicsMedicineEnvironmental healthEconomic growthPopulationBiologyPaleontologyGlobal Health Care IssuesHealthcare Policy and Management