Director's Message

摘要

As many of you know, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has embarked on a multiyear project to enhance the way it measures health care spending. BEA has published a variety of material presenting the results of this project. Much of this work is collaborative with economists and with colleagues at other agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau, and Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this issue of the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, we are pleased to publish an article by economists from CMS and Inforum (the Interindustry Forecasting Project at the University of Maryland) that develops supply-side health care data, reconciling widely used statistics from BEA and CMS.