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The Rising Price of Physician's Services

Martin Feldstein
- 01 May 1970 - 
- Vol. 52, Iss: 2, pp 121-133
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This article is published in The Review of Economics and Statistics.The article was published on 1970-05-01. It has received 223 citations till now.

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Impact of increasing physician supply: a scenario for the future.

Harold S. Luft, +1 more
- 01 Nov 1986 - 
TL;DR: It is argued that in today's rapidly changing health care environment it is not useful to take econometrically based models of physician supply that are based on past experience and project them into the future to determine implications for cost, access, quality, and other health policy issues.
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What do physicians dislike about managed care? Evidence from a choice experiment.

TL;DR: Private-practice physicians’ willingness to accept (WTA, compensation asked, respectively) for several MC features must be able to achieve substantial savings in order to create sufficient incentives for Swiss physicians to participate voluntarily in MC plans.
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Pricing health services: verification of a monopoly pricing model for dentistry.

TL;DR: A model of monopoly with constant marginal costs is used to derive a price function for dental services, and the implications are tested using data on individual practitioners from a national survey, providing strong evidence of the appropriateness of the monopoly model to analyses of the market for dental Services.
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The seed of abundance and misery Peruvian living standards from the early republican period to the end of the guano era (1820-1880).

TL;DR: This paper examined 19th-century Peruvian heights from the early republican period to the end of the guano era (1820-1880) and found that the physical stature of the lower classes stagnated throughout the period.
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Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the way in which the operation of the medical-care industry and the efficacy with which it satisfies the needs of society differ from a norm, and the most obvious distinguishing characteristics of an individual's demand for medical services is that it is not steady in origin as, for example, for food or clothing but is irregular and unpredictable.
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Price Discrimination in Medicine

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that if many doctors engaged in such price policies, a pattern of prices for medical services would be established that would be independent of the incomes of patients.
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The doctor shortage : an economic diagnosis

TL;DR: The author concludes that the authors will indeed face a shortage of doctor services and, although he calls his book an economic diagnosis, he does not shrink from prescribing several means of dealing with the problem.