Healthcare Spending
Research the writings of Uwe Reinhardt related to Health Care Spending.
1.  It’s the Prices, Stupid:  Why the United States Is so Different from Other Countries, Health Affairs 2003. the article is attached.
2.  https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2013/11/conversation-uwe-e-reinhardt-phd-health-care-deserves-more-respect  November 2013 (Interview with Uwe Reinhardt.
Health
Spending
It’s The Prices, Stupid: Why
The United States Is So
Different From Other Countries
Higher health spending but lower use of health services adds up to
much higher prices in the United States than in any other OECD
country.
by Gerard F. Anderson, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Peter S. Hussey, and
Varduhi Petrosyan
PROLOGUE: In Fall 1986 Health Affairs published the first of nearly two decades’
worth of reports summarizing the state of health care spending in industrialized
countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD). In that first report, featuring 1984 data, the United States
led the way in per capita health care spending at $1,637, nearly double the OECD
mean of $871 (in purchasing power parities based on the U.S. dollar). In the latest
offering, featuring data from 2000, the situation is much the same, although the
absolute numbers are much higher (U.S. per capita spending of $4,631, compared
with an OECD median of $1,983).
Over the years the OECD has refined its methodology to improve the comparability of data from vastly different health care systems. The analysis published in
Health Affairs has greatly expanded from those early reports to examine underlying
trends in spending differentials and to examine what the different countries get
for their health care dollar in terms of population health indicators. In the current
report, the authors look in depth at factors contributing to higher health care
prices in the United States, which they contend are responsible for much of the
difference between the U.S. spending levels and those of the other countries.
Lead author Gerard Anderson has been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins
University since 1983. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and
Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and serves as
that department’s associate chair. He holds a doctorate in public policy analysis
from the University of Pennsylvania. Uwe Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.