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The percent of GDP spent on health care in the USA increased again in 2006 – to 16%. Health care spending reached a total of $2.1 trillion, or $7,026 per person in 2006, up from $6,649 per person in 2005.
Related: USA Healthcare Costs Now 16% of GDP – Measuring the Health of Nations – USA Paying More for Health Care
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March 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
“The mounting U.S. drug price crisis can be contained and eventually reversed by separating drug discovery from drug marketing and by establishing a non-profit company to oversee funding for new medicines…”
April 16th, 2008 at 8:38 am
PBS presents a very nice overview of the heath care systems in Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland in: Sick Around the World…
May 6th, 2008 at 10:11 am
“Americans are going overseas for increasingly complex surgeries. In addition, more patients seem willing to accept that quality of care in some foreign hospitals may be the same or higher as that found on U.S. soil, at a fraction of the cost…”
September 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am
[...] system is broken. But I would say less than 50% understand this, even decades later, even after the situation has deteriorated much further. And certainly little effective effort at improving the health care system has been made. At least [...]
December 8th, 2008 at 8:37 am
“We’re not getting what we pay for,” says Denis Cortese, CEO of the Mayo Clinic. “It’s just that simple.”
“Our health-care system is fraught with waste,” says Gary Kaplan, chairman of Seattle’s cutting-edge Virginia Mason Medical Center…