Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
The California HealthCare Foundation has a great document summarizing many useful Health Care Cost Statistics (see full text or fact sheet). Some of the highlights: Health Care spending as a percentage of GDP is projected to grow 16.0% of GDP in 2006 to 19.5% of GDP in 2017. Average health care spending per capita was…
From the researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care: “Regional differences in Medicare spending are largely explained by the more inpatient-based and specialist-oriented pattern of practice observed in high-spending regions. Neither quality of care nor access to care appear to be better for Medicare enrollees in higher-spending regions.” Fisher ES, Wennberg DE, Stukel TA,…