Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Nov 2018
How to make US health care more equitable and less costly
27 November 2018 - Begin by replacing employment-based insurance.
Among the most important domestic policy problems in the United States is the high cost of health care, which is estimated at $10 000 per person per year and is at least 50% more than the cost in any other country. The annual US total health care spending of more than $3.3 trillion dwarfs spending on other critical services such as national defence ($867 billion) and education ($1.1 trillion).
The cost of health care devastates some family budgets and lives, limits the ability of state and local governments to provide adequately for education and infrastructure, and contributes substantially to the federal government’s deficit and debt. A reduction in health care expenditures by only 10% would free $330 billion each year to meet other public and private needs.
