AcademyHealth: Cost cutting and the economic downturn

It’s conventional wisdom that during the economic downturn people cut back on spending on health care. That’s a demand-side story for the recent, slower growth in health care spending. But there is also a less widely recognized supply-side story, which I explain in a new AcademyHealth blog post.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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