Resumen de Comments and discussion

David M. Cutler, Douglas O. Staiger

• The article offers the author's comment on the article "Why the Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending Cannot Tell Us Much about the Efficiency or Quality of Our Health Care System" by Louise Sheiner. The author compares the variable used by Sheiner in the study with the ones used by Jack Wennberg and colleagues. He says that Sheiner looks only at acute care. An overview of the paper is also offered