HE United States operates a health care sys-tem that is unique among nations. It is the most expensive of systems, outstripping by over half again the health care expenditures of any other country.1 The number of people without in-surance continues to increase, however, reaching 43.4 million, or 16.1 percent of the population, in 1997 — the highest level in a decade.2 By many technical standards, U.S. medical care is the best in the world,3 but leaders in the field declared recently at a national round table that there is an “urgent need to improve health care quality.”4 The stringen-cy of managed care and a low inflation rate have slowed the growth of medical spending appreciably, but a new government study projects that healt
A study conducted by the International Common Wealth Fund in 2014 ranked the United States (U.S.) he...
AbstractU.S. medical spending is high by measures including the level of spending, level of spending...
Health care in the United States (US) is undergoing major changes. Although high end health care is ...
The United States has the world’s most expensive healthcare system. In 2002, health spending rose to...
The United States spends more than any other nation on healthcare by an exceedingly significant amou...
U.S. health care expenditures rose 6.7 % in 2006, the government recently reported. According to the...
For many years, politicians and insurance companies could blithely proclaim that the U.S. had the be...
health expenditures total more than $700 billion and make up over 13 percent of the gross domestic p...
Compares healthcare spending, supply, utilization, prices, and quality in thirteen industrialized na...
Health care costs in the United States have risen drastically in the last thirty years. In the 1960s...
Health care is what economists call a superior good, one that claims an increasing part of the con...
For health care, never has the classical expression “It was the best of times, it was the worst of t...
Healthcare is an important facet of any developed economy. Most of the world’s developed countries h...
A lthough countries around the world are grappling with the problem ofrising health expenditures, th...
Compares the U.S. health system to those of twelve OECD countries based on measures of spending; phy...
A study conducted by the International Common Wealth Fund in 2014 ranked the United States (U.S.) he...
AbstractU.S. medical spending is high by measures including the level of spending, level of spending...
Health care in the United States (US) is undergoing major changes. Although high end health care is ...
The United States has the world’s most expensive healthcare system. In 2002, health spending rose to...
The United States spends more than any other nation on healthcare by an exceedingly significant amou...
U.S. health care expenditures rose 6.7 % in 2006, the government recently reported. According to the...
For many years, politicians and insurance companies could blithely proclaim that the U.S. had the be...
health expenditures total more than $700 billion and make up over 13 percent of the gross domestic p...
Compares healthcare spending, supply, utilization, prices, and quality in thirteen industrialized na...
Health care costs in the United States have risen drastically in the last thirty years. In the 1960s...
Health care is what economists call a superior good, one that claims an increasing part of the con...
For health care, never has the classical expression “It was the best of times, it was the worst of t...
Healthcare is an important facet of any developed economy. Most of the world’s developed countries h...
A lthough countries around the world are grappling with the problem ofrising health expenditures, th...
Compares the U.S. health system to those of twelve OECD countries based on measures of spending; phy...
A study conducted by the International Common Wealth Fund in 2014 ranked the United States (U.S.) he...
AbstractU.S. medical spending is high by measures including the level of spending, level of spending...
Health care in the United States (US) is undergoing major changes. Although high end health care is ...