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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (16679)	3/8/2002 8:45:42 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<<How about inflation in services? Medical costs up around 40% in that same period. Legal services, about the same. The list goes on and on.>> ...and are the services received any better? Certainly not in medicine, where everything takes more and more time on the part of more and more people, to acquire the same (or perhaps marginally better) service compared with, say 10-15 years ago. Try getting a procedure approved from your local HMO! I call this "degredation of service", and it's not accounted for in hedonic adjustments.