Every year the International Foundation of Health Plans issues a report comparing pricing on common treatments across the developed world and illustrating that the United States has more of a unit price than a utilization problem.
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A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association evaluates health in the United States over the last twenty years and compares trends to those in other countries.
The Commonwealth Fund puts out yet another report decrying the sorry American health system, which has by far the highest per capita costs and supposedly no better outcomes. It is unclear, however, that Americans don’t actually by and large get more total value for their dollars and the higher spending is largely due to unit prices.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at [email protected].
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