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Vol.5, No.7, 1195-1200 (2013) Health /10.4236/health.2013.57161 Competitive market forces and trends in US hospital spending, 2001-2009 Vivian Y. Wu , Yu-Chu Shen , Glenn Melnick 1* 2,3 1 1 2 3 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA; Corresponding Author: vivianwu@ * Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, USA Received 10 May 2013; revised 11 June 2013; accepted 1 July 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Vivian Y. Wu et al. This is an open access