A recent study found that the average American spends much more on health care than other developed countries, not because Americans have more access to health care, but because it is more expensive.
The study, conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was published in the latest issue of Health Affairs, and analyzed health care use and spending among industrialized nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The researchers concluded that the higher cost of health care in the United States was simply that American health care has higher prices, which includes pharmaceuticals, services, salaries for medical workers, and hospital fees.
Americans spent $9,892 per capita on health care in 2016, the highest average in the world, roughly two and a half times the median of developed nations. Switzerland ranked second at $7,919, and the OECD median was $4,033.
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