JPHMP Direct May 4, 2022
Harshada Karnik, Rachel Schulman, JP Leider

Relatively little of our national conversation on health is about public health, which is right in line with our spending on public health; less than 3% of that spending goes toward governmental public health, ie public spending through federal, state, and local agencies and services provided by them.

Popular discourse on health has focused primarily on private health care, covering issues such as how difficult it is to see doctors and specialists, how expensive and inefficient it is, and how we can improve these systems. This makes sense given that we spend more than $4 trillion on health in the US, with the vast majority going to personal health care. Relatively little of our national conversation on health is about...

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