LWW Journals January 3, 2022
Health insurers and health care providers in the United States spent approximately $812 billion on administration in 2017, amounting to $2497 per capita (34.2% of national health expenditures) versus $551 per capita (17.0%) in Canada, according to a study published in 2020 by David Himmelstein, MD, and Stephanie Woolhandler, MD, distinguished professors at the School of Urban Public Health at Hunter College and the founders of Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates for single-payer health insurance in the United States. (Ann Intern Med. 2020;172[2]:134.)
That includes $844 versus $146 for insurers’ overhead; $933 versus $196 for hospital administration; $255 versus $123 for nursing home, home care, and hospice administration; and $465 versus $87 for physicians’ insurance-related costs.
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