Why have prices of health care & education gone up SO much? (~200% in just 20 years)
My latest podcast is with economist @ATabarrok who blames a phenomenon called the Baumol Effect. Audio + transcript: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-236-alex-tabarrok-on-why-are-the-prices-so-dmn-high.html …
Lots of interesting questions here! Thread: (1/n)
-
-
Show me a sector — *any* skilled sector — where productivity is flat(ish) AND there are minimal barriers to entry/enforced caps on entry AND there are alternatives to consumption that *aren't* under these same pressures... where costs have risen anywhere near so substantially.
-
US population increased ~20%, doctors ~ 33% over the last 20 years Economics would suggest that prices should fall, but they didn't. So either more need medical treatment and/or more complexity and cost for treatment and/or more regulation is behind it https://www.statista.com/statistics/186260/total-doctors-of-medicine-in-the-us-since-1949/ …
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.