Advisory Board August 28, 2019
It has been widely speculated that the reason the United States outspends other countries on health care is because it does not invest enough in social services, but a study published last week in Health Affairs casts doubt on that theory.
Study details
For the study, researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard University sought to compare the United States’ social spending to other high-income countries and determine if there is any link between increases in social spending and lower health care spending.
To do so, the researchers examined health care and social spending data from 1980 to 2015 for 35 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Findings
Overall,...