{"title":"Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation","authors":"Jonathan Skinner","doi":"10.1257/jel.62.1.317.r9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Jonathan Skinner of Dartmouth University reviews “Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation” by James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Considers why the US health-care system is becoming neither better nor more affordable over time, contending that the health sector generates the wrong kinds of innovation by making it easy to profit from low-value innovations and difficult to do the same from innovations that reduce care costs.”","PeriodicalId":509385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Literature","volume":"202 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Economic Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.62.1.317.r9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Jonathan Skinner of Dartmouth University reviews “Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation” by James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Considers why the US health-care system is becoming neither better nor more affordable over time, contending that the health sector generates the wrong kinds of innovation by making it easy to profit from low-value innovations and difficult to do the same from innovations that reduce care costs.”
达特茅斯大学的 Jonathan Skinner 评论了 James B. Rebitzer 和 Robert S. Rebitzer 合著的《为什么不能更好更便宜?James B. Rebitzer 和 Robert S. Rebitzer 合著的《医疗保健与创新》。这本书的 Econlit 摘要开头写道"该书认为,医疗行业产生了错误的创新类型,使得人们很容易从低价值的创新中获利,而难以从降低医疗成本的创新中获利。