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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2011
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
ECIPE Working Paper No. 05/2011
Verlag: 
European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), Brussels
Zusammenfassung: 
The last 40 years have seen a rapid increase of government expenditures on public welfare arrangements. Increasing healthcare expenditures form a significant part of these outlays, and its share of total government expenditure has risen rapidly. This paper argues that the determinants of growth in healthcare expenditure are partly to be found in the way healthcare is organised. As economist William Baumol noted already in the 1960s, personalized services can easily fall into a stagnation trap characterized by rapidly increasing cost inflation. Healthcare today shows clear signs of being a "stagnant personal service" with poor productivity levels compared to other services such as telecommunication. As a result, healthcare inflation is far higher than the standard inflation rate, creating high real costs that push up the expenditure for healthcare. Consequently, we argue for reforms in the organisation of healthcare provisions to reduce the sector's productivity lags in European countries and to reap the benefits that emanates from integration with other markets.
Schlagwörter: 
healthcare
inflation
Baumol's disease
trade in services
JEL: 
I11
I12
I18
H51
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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