10/21/2004: Snapshot on Health Care: U.S. Spends More, Gets Less than Other Countries (Economic Policy Institute)

Excerpt: By every measure, the United States spends more money on health care than any other industrialized country: nearly five thousand dollars per capita on health expenditures. The United States spends over two and a half times the average health expenditures of the 29 other nations in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), adjusted for purchasing-power parity. The next largest spender on health is Switzerland at $3,288 per capita.