RESOURCE: How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care by Arnold Relman | The New York Review of Books
“The US is facing a major crisis in the cost of health care. Corrected for inflation, health expenditures in the public sector are nearly doubling each decade, and those in the private sector are increasing even more rapidly. According to virtually all economists, this financial burden, which is now consuming about 17 percent of our entire economic output (far more than in any other country), cannot be sustained much longer. The federal share, including payments for Medicare and Medicaid, was 23 percent of the national budget in 2009 and is a prime cause of the deficit.”
via How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care by Arnold Relman | The New York Review of Books.