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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