New drugs and the growth of health expen
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Ya-Ming Liu; Chee-Ruey Hsieh
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## SUMMARY This paper contributes to the growing body of literature that debates whether the adoption of pharmaceutical innovation increases the overall expenditure on health care. By examining data obtained from Taiwan and focusing on diabetic patients, we use a new class of drugs, namely, thiazol