Oliver Wyman September 3, 2025
Zeroing in on the labor intensity of care, a high administrative burden, and the growing cost of drugs can save more than $1.3 trillion over the next 10 years.
Healthcare’s affordability crisis is at a tipping point for everyone — insurers, providers, life science companies, government, employers, and, critically, consumers. For the first time since 2020, Americans cited healthcare costs as one of their top two financial concerns, according to a Gallup poll. The problem is only expected to worsen over time: Our analysis of federal data suggests that annual US healthcare spending will nearly double by 2035 to $9 trillion.
But this fate isn’t written in stone. In our work helping the nation’s biggest healthcare organizations optimize their performance,...







