The topics were discussed in a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled, “The Anatomy of Health Care in the United States.” Specifically, researchers aimed at addressing six key areas, basing all analysis and conclusions on publicly available healthcare data from 1980 to 2011, and they found troubling trends for the U.S. system.
Economic anatomy
In 2011, U.S. spending on healthcare hit $2.7 trillion, or almost 18 percent of gross domestic product. Why has the healthcare system become so expensive?
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