Applied Economics: Economics of Healthcare [UPDATED]

Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/upshot/medical-mystery-health-spending-1980.html

Economics of Prescription Drug Prices

https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2017/q4/cover_story.pdf

Related:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/journal-article/2018/nov/whats-driving-prescription-drug-prices-us
https://www.economist.com/news/business/21738934-it-not-pharmaceutical-companies-which-firms-profit-most-americas-health-care-system

Medical Tourism:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-12/startups-look-to-mainstream-medical-tourism

Healthcare Efficiency - Cross-Country Rankings

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/u-s-near-bottom-of-health-index-hong-kong-and-singapore-at-top

The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/upshot/costs-health-care-us.html

Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits

https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21740873-argument-universal-health-care-clear-getting-there-difficult-says-john

Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2674671

High Cost of Healthcare in the US

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/13/the-real-reason-the-u-s-spends-twice-as-much-on-health-care-as-other-wealthy-countries/

Is Healthcare a Right? By Dr. Atul Gawande

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/02/is-health-care-a-right

Greg Mankiw on the Economics of Healthcare

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mankiw/files/economics_of_healthcare.pdf