MedPage Today January 27, 2025
— What would our health system be like if healthcare teams could decide how the money was spent?
What could we do with $5 trillion?
Apparently, we do a lot, and yet sometimes it seems like it’s just not enough.
This amount is an approximation of the U.S. annual healthcare spending, nearly 18% of the national GDP, which gives us probably the most expensive healthcare in this world without giving our citizens the best health. We spend and we spend and we spend, and then we spend more trying to figure out why what we spent didn’t work.
In a recent article in the New York Times, a report from Britain on the state of their National Health Service decried...