The State of Healthcare: From Challenges to Opportunities

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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BALANCING THE SCALES The United States’ healthcare system has been under increasing stress in recent years. High spending costs, combined with the growing burden of chronic and non-communicable diseases has created a fractured and unsustainable healthcare model. In 2013, the USA spent $2.9 trillion on healthcare,

capita spent on healthcare.2 The costs are caused

amounting to $9,255 per person and 17.4% of the

by multiple factors: insurance, specialist visits,

GDP.1 The country outspends all others when

numerous expensive treatments, and overpriced

it comes to healthcare and by a considerable

pharmaceutical drugs.

margin – the second highest-spending country is the Netherlands with 12% of GDP and $4,710 per

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