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Deconstructing Medicare Spending Across States

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  • Arthur W. Wright

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Medicare has been much in the news, amid the swirling public-policy debate over President Obama’s push for “health care reform”. It is Exhibit #1 as a public health insurance program, which many Democrats insist is essential to true reform. President Obama’s chief budget officer, economist Peter Orszag, has long viewed differences across states in health care reimbursements per Medicare enrollee as opportunities for budget savings without cutting quality. This article explores possible empirical reasons why interstate Medicare spending per enrollee varies so much, to see whether federal dollars could be saved by redesigning (nobody said “cutting”) Medicare reimbursements.

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  • Arthur W. Wright, 2009. "Deconstructing Medicare Spending Across States," The Connecticut Economy, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics, issue Fall.
    • Handle: RePEc:uct:ctecon:09-fal-02
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    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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