Forbes August 31, 2017
Chris Conover

The first 4 parts of this series have focused on the extraordinary growth in America’s health spending over the past 8+ decades. The next 3 parts are focused on the question of whether we get good value for the money from the ever-increasing river of resources diverted into health (which includes personal health care, public health, health insurance and administration, i.e., everything that is officially tracked by the U.S. government in its National Health Expenditure Accounts).

Series Summary

Part 1: real per capita health spending saw a 25-fold increase the 8 decades starting in 1929 even as real per capita GDP grew only 5-fold during the same period.

Part 2: annual excess growth in inflation-adjusted health spending above and beyond...

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