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Medical Spending of the US Elderly

We use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to document the medical spending of Americans aged 65 and older. We find that medical expenses more than double between ages 70 and 90 and that they are very concentrated: the top 10 per cent of all spenders are responsible for 52 per c...

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Autores principales: De Nardi, Mariacristina, French, Eric, Jones, John Bailey, McCauley, Jeremy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6680320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5890.2016.12106