Vox April 8, 2019
Sarah Kliff

A new report from the Center for American Progress dives into one of the key things that sets our health care system apart from those of other countries: our exceptionally high administrative costs. And it makes a case that in order to bring down those costs, you actually don’t need to go all the way to single-payer.

”A structural overhaul of how health care is financed and priced that includes key features of other countries’ systems — whether one payer or many — would go a long way toward eliminating excess administrative costs,” co-authors Emily Gee and Topher Spiro argue.

First, let’s look at the numbers. As you can see in this chart, the United States has administrative costs that...

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