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Peter Franks, MD, Anthony F. Jerant, MD and J. Paul Leigh, PhD

Peter Franks and J. Paul Leigh are with the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Davis, Calif. Anthony F. Jerant is with the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Peter Franks, MD, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, 4860 Y Street, Suite 2300, Sacramento, CA 95817 (e-mail: pfranks@ucdavis.edu).

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Farrelly and Engelen appear to have repeated our analyses, but have included 2 more recent years of data and used Nielsen retail price data as well as the tax burden data that we used. There are some noteworthy inconsistencies. First, despite using more years of data, their sample size was over 1 million persons smaller than ours. Second, they noted that a meta-analysis found an elasticity of –0.4, which is what we found in the earlier time period. However, the elasticity they reported throughout was much lower (range: –0.1 to –0.13). This lower elasticity is actually less than the elasticity . . . [Full Text]