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To: yard_man who wrote (86038)3/27/2001 10:40:09 AM
From: LLCF  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
<Greenspan used the medical industry as an example of one in which current measures seem inadequate. He said applying price measures to new treatment methods that require shorter or no hospital stays indicated prices for medical services have been falling since the mid-1980s.>

HO HO HO.... wise move by Greenjeans, the increase in value of these products is subjective and endless... the holy grail of hedonics as it were. "The cure for cancer" or "The cure for inflation"?? LOL, now we'll finally see an increase weighting for healthcare in the CPI no doubt!

DAK
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