Soviet environment: Spending more

Saving money by spending more.

Spending on medical care: more is better?

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Spending more on turning patients into people.

deriving an average respectively of 44% and 32% of calories from fat. Furthermore, although careful steps were taken to validate the dietary questionnaire, the inevitable imprecision of data derived from questionnaires was evident from the information provided. The best evidence of any causal association would be provided by an intervention study. The United States National Cancer Institute wil...

The Obama plan: more regulation, unsustainable spending.

The health reform plan put forth by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) focuses on expanding insurance coverage and provides new subsidies to individuals, small businesses, and businesses experiencing catastrophic expenses. It greatly increases the federal regulation of private insurance but does not address the core economic incentives that drive health care spending. This omission along with the very su...

Does More Public Health Spending Buy Better Health?

BACKGROUND In this article, we attempt to address a persistent question in the health policy literature: Does more public health spending buy better health? This is a difficult question to answer due to unobserved differences in public health across regions as well as the potential for an endogenous relationship between public health spending and public health outcomes. METHODS We take advant...