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More Is More And Less Is Less: The Case Of Mississippi

ONE CAN ’T HELP but admire the vigor with which some members of the Dartmouth group defend their core belief that "more is less." But polemics aside, some questions still linger. Does Mississippi actually have more specialists (as represented in Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra’s Exhibit 6), and does it spend more on health care (as in their Exhibit 1) than almost every other state? And can Mississippi, which ranks near the bottom in health care quality, lift its status by simply improving its health care productivity, as Jon Skinner and colleagues suggest? If these questions gnaw at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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