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See also: Health spending as percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by country. The first table and bar chart lists member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It shows each country's total spending (public and private) on health per capita in PPP international dollars. The next table lists nearly all ...
The U.S. consumes 3 times as many mammograms, 2.5x the number of MRI scans, and 31% more C-sections per-capita than peer countries. This is a blend of higher per-capita income and higher use of specialists, among other factors. [4] The U.S. government intervenes less actively to force down prices in the United States than in other countries ...
The United States spends much more money on healthcare than Canada, on both a per-capita basis and as a percentage of GDP. [8] In 2006, per-capita spending for health care in Canada was US$3,678; in the U.S., US$6,714. The U.S. spent 15.3% of GDP on healthcare in that year; Canada spent 10.0%. [8]
Health care expenditures per capita — including out-of-pocket spending on all privately and publicly funded health care services — held the most weight in each state’s score.
With health care spending averaging $13,493 spent per person annually, many Americans are feeling the pinch more than ever. Despite high costs, patients often leave their appointments dissatisfied.
A study by the National Institutes of Health reported that the lifetime per capita expenditure at birth, using the year 2000 dollars, showed a large difference between the healthcare costs of females ($361,192, equivalent to $639,048 in 2023 [31]) and males ($268,679, equivalent to $475,367 in 2023 [31]). A large portion of this cost difference ...
And U.S. health care spending has been above-trend for decades. From 2021 to 2022, health care spending per capita grew 4.1 percent, faster than the 3.2 percent increase from 2020 to 2021 ...
Despite this spending, the quality of health care overall is low by OECD measures. [10] The Commonwealth Fund ranked the United States last in the quality of health care among similar countries. [11] [12] The percentage of persons without health insurance (the "uninsured") fell from 13.3% in 2013 to 8.8% in 2016, due primarily to the Affordable ...