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Volume 345:770-772 September 6, 2001 Number 10
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Controlling Health Care Expenditures

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To the Editor: Blumenthal, in his excellent article on controlling health care expenditures (March 8 issue),1 did not discuss the variation in expenditures across states and regions. With Health Care Financing Administration data, it can be calculated that per capita personal health care expenditures ranged from $2,760 in Idaho to $4,889 in Massachusetts in 1998,2 and much of this variation persists after adjustment for factors such as residence in one state but receipt of health care in another.3,4 There is no evidence that people who live in states with higher expenditures are more healthy than those who live in states . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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