Health Spending In The United States And The Rest Of The Industrialized World
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 24 (4), 903-914
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.903
Abstract
U.S. citizens spent $5,267 per capita for health care in 2002—53 percent more than any other country. Two possible reasons for the differential are supply constraints that create waiting lists in o...Keywords
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