We thank Amber Barnato (Barnato 2010), and Elliot Fisher and Jonathan Skinner (Fisher and Skinner 2010) for their thoughtful comments on our paper (Silber et al. 2010).
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Address correspondence to Jeffrey H. Silber, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology and Critical Care, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3313; e-mail: silberj@wharton.upenn.edu. Jeffrey H. Silber, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, is with the Department of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA.Jeffrey H. Silber, M.D., Ph.D., Director, is also with the Center for Outcomes Research, The Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. Robert Kaestner, Ph.D., Professor, is with the Department of Economics, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, The University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
Author: Jeffrey H. Silber, Robert Kaestner
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