Healthcare is deliberately excluded from Meyer and Sullivan's research because there is less professional agreement on how to handle the tremendous quality changes; children's access (e.g., share with annual checkups) has improved, but the share of median-income people with insurance has declined over time, which would offset some gains if access to better technology fell.

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Bruce Meyer

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we try and stay away from it actually in our research because there's less agreement in the profession about how to handle health care

Source

Bruce Meyer on the Middle Class, Poverty, and Inequality 10/03/2011EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:20:26 AM

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