Determinants of Health Care Expenditure in the United States

• DOI: 10.32910/ep.73.4.7
• Publication Date: 2022-07-14T06:43:41Z
• Authors: Mustafa Göktuğ Kaya; Patricia Hughes
• Keywords: Distributed lag

The rapid increase in health expenditure has become a major concern for both households and governments the United States. This paper investigates long-run dynamics of care States over period 1991-2014 using National Health Expenditure Data from Centers Medicare & Medicaid Services. We use an Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) technique to estimate short-run adjustment changes government insurance enrollment, controlling income, health, uninsured, trend account technological changes. results indicate that instance type affect per capita expenditure; particular, increases enrollment lead higher levels relative other groups while lower levels.