Does increased use of technology in itself cause more rapid growth in US health care expenditures as a share of the economy, compared to other countries?

This AEI event examined what can be learned from the research on geographic variation in health spending.

Many experts today insist that a patient’s race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with him. The notion that physicians are biased against minorities––overtly or subtly––has acquired considerable weight in both academic literature and the popular press. In their new book The Health Disparities Myth (AEI Press, 2006), authors...

Are differences in treatment due to deliberate discrimination or other (less invidious) factors?