Do new prescription drugs pay for themselves? [An article from: Journal of Health Economics]

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Release: 2005-01-01
Publisher: Elsevier
Binding: Digital
ISBN/ASIN: B000RR1T10
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During the last several years, spending on prescription drugs in the U.S. increased at a 15% annual rate, with the US$ 178 billion spent in 2002 accounting for more than 11% of health care expenditures in the U.S. This growth has been largely driven by a shift to new drugs, which are typically more expensive than earlier drugs within the same therapeutic category. Recent research has suggested that the shift to new drugs may lower health care spending by reducing the demand for hospitalizations and other health care services. Using a 20% sample of Medicaid recipients from the state of California for the 1993-2001 period, I investigate this hypothesis for antipsychotic drugs-the therapeutic category that Download Do new prescription drugs pay for themselves? [An article from for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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