In this blog post, we take a look at how utilization and price of healthcare in the United States compare to similarly wealthy and sizable OECD countries. The analysis uses 2013 health utilization data from the OECD Health Statistics database, …
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Although Medicare provides Americans over the age of 65 with nearly universal health insurance coverage, seniors in the U.S. nevertheless face more cost-related access problems than elderly adults in other industrialized countries, according to a recent study.
An international survey …
While health spending growth has slowed in recent years, over the long-term healthcare costs have grown significantly, with per capita spending increasing about tenfold since the early 1980s. Health spending growth has consistently outpaced U.S. economic growth and is higher …
Analysis of OECD data shows that the U.S. has the highest rate of infant mortality among comparably wealthy countries. The OECD data are limited, however, in that countries vary in the methods by which they report infant mortality.
A working …