Becker's Healthcare November 7, 2019
The United States spends more than twice as much as the average Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development country on healthcare, yet it lags in many health indicators, according to a recently published OECD report.
Six quick takeaways:
- The U.S. spent the most of any OECD country on healthcare in 2018, at $10,686 per person, while the OECD average is $3,994.
- The U.S. also spent the greatest proportion of its GDP on healthcare (16.9 percent), compared to the 8.8 percent for the average OECD country.
- Meanwhile, just 91 percent of the population in the U.S. is eligible to receive a core set of healthcare services, placing the U.S. near last and just head of Mexico (89 percent population coverage),...
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