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Commentary: 'The Price Ain't Right' ain't right

21 January 2016

It's not every day that an unpublished academic study rates a front-page story in the New York Times, let alone an additional continuation page replete with graphics, but that was the treatment accorded to the study titled 'The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Spending on the Privately Insured' on Dec. 15. Even more remarkably, the study itself, while well-written and full of interesting information, contained no substantive findings that should have been at all surprising to anyone who has followed the health policy or health economics literature in recent years.

This article was published online by Modern Healthcare on January 21, 2016
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Related publications
The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance DP 1395, December 2015

Related links
Zack Cooper webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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