The U.S. spends twice as much as comparable countries on health, driven mostly by higher payments to hospitals and physicians, NOT drugs!
Even though voters care a lot about drug prices, they’re NOT the main reason the U.S. spends so much on health care. The primary culprits are the twice as much per person spent on hospital and physician payments than comparable wealthy nations. And yet, according to a new Peterson-Kaiser Tracker analysis, the U.S. has worse health…