Health Care Spending in the United States Compared With 10 Other High-Income CountriesWhat Uwe Reinhardt Might Have Said

摘要

In this issue of JAMA , Papanicolas and colleagues~(1) compared health care spending in the United States with health care spending in a select group of 10 of the highest-income countries (United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Denmark). The authors examined drivers of spending across multiple dimensions, including general health system expenditures, population behaviors and health, labor costs and structural capacity, administrative costs, utilization, access and quality, cost of pharmaceuticals, and distribution and equity. Editorial Factors Contributing to Higher US Health Care Spending Editorial The Real Cost of the US Health Care System Editorial Challenges in Understanding US Health Care Spending vs Other High-Income Countries