I'm confused about some of the data in Tabarrok's book.
Take physicians per capita (PPC) . Big increase since 1960, yet many other countries have the same or (many) more PPC than the US. Many have also had large increases. Germans for example had as many PPC in the 90s as Americans do now, and today Germany has twice as many, yet somehow they spend half of what we do on health care. How are they affording that? There is a pile of other similar countries... Why are so many countries' health care systems seemingly immune to Baumol cost disease? Are German doc
I'm confused about some of the data in Tabarrok's book.
Take physicians per capita (PPC) . Big increase since 1960, yet many other countries have the same or (many) more PPC than the US. Many have also had large increases. Germans for example had as many PPC in the 90s as Americans do now, and today Germany has twice as many, yet somehow they spend half of what we do on health care. How are they affording that? There is a pile of other similar countries... Why are so many countries' health care systems seemingly immune to Baumol cost disease? Are German doc
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