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Thu Feb 6, 2014, 07:45 PM Feb 2014

Health Care Spending by High-Income Countries, 1980–2011 (New Eng Jour Med)

Health Care Spending by High-Income Countries, 1980–2011

Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D., and Laura E. Smith
N Engl J Med 2014; January 30, 2014

This interactive graphic shows the per capita levels of health care spending, over time, by both public and private sectors in the United States and in the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. It documents the changing levels of spending for inpatient care, outpatient care, prescription medicines, and public health services in various countries; the amounts spent on health administration and insurance; and out-of-pocket spending by patients in each country.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1310228?query=health-policy-and-reform
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