Will A Focus On ‘Value’ Improve U.S. Health System Performance?
The recent Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study, Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries, is a confirmation of what U.S. health policymakers know—we spend more on health care than other countries and have consistently poorer outcomes. The new data comparing the U.S. to ten other high-income countries on medical care (Canada, Germany, Australia, the U.K. Japan, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Denmark) found:
About 18% of the S. gross domestic product was spent …
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