Total health spending is a function of both price paid to providers or for drugs and the volume of services used. These charts explore prices and use of health services in the U.S. relative to comparable countries (those with both …
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How much is health spending expected to grow?
This chart collection explores the ways health spending has changed over time and projections of health spending in the future. An earlier brief also explored trends in this topic. …
How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries?
This chart collection takes a look at how spending on healthcare in the United States compares to other OECD countries that are similarly large and wealthy (based on GDP and GDP per capita). The analysis looks at 2016 health data …
How has U.S. spending on healthcare changed over time?
This chart collection explores recently released National Health Expenditure (NHE) data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. These data offer insight into changes in health spending over time as well as the driving forces behind spending growth.…
How much does the U.S. spend to treat different diseases?
This collection of charts and a related brief explore trends in the costs of treating diseases. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) disease-based health spending estimates allows users to examine national health spending trends by disease category from 2000 – …
The recent slowdown in health spending growth continued through 2013, according to a new report released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Health spending per capita grew at 2.9% in 2013, a continuation of the historically low …
Health of the Healthcare System: An Overview
How does the U.S. healthcare system compare to health systems of other high-income countries, and how has it fared over time? This chart collection accompanies our animated video, “Health of the Healthcare System,” a diagnostic look at the state of …