Health care spending
Subtitle: what the future will look like
By: by Christian Hagist and Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Contributors: Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; National Center for Policy Analysis (U.S.)
Series: NCPA policy report -- 286; NCPA policy report -- no. 286.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Medical care; Finance; Cost of Medical care
Description: European critics of the U.S. health care system often focus on the private provision of health care and health insurance. Yet the more important difference between the United States and other developed countries is the failure to control government spending. Other countries employ global budgets and control access to expensive drugs and new technology. The United States, by contrast, has very meager spending controls. If current trends continue, U.S. government health care spending will consume an ever growing portion of national income, far more so than any other developed country.
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