U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes
In all countries, health spending as a share of the overall economy has been steadily increasing since the 1980s, as spending growth has outpaced economic growth. Healthcare spending, per person and as a share of GDP, continues to be far higher in the United States than in other high-income countries. Yet the U.S. is the only country that doesn’t have universal health coverage. Americans see physicians less often than people in most other countries and have the lowest rate of practicing physicians and hospital beds per 1,000 population. The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest death rates for avoidable or treatable conditions, the highest maternal and infant mortality, and among the highest suicide rates. Read more on how The U.S. compares to the rest of the world.
U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes (Gunja, Gumas, Williams II) Commonwealth Fund, 1/31).
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