Comments on: USA Heath Care System Needs Reform

By: 2015 Health Care Price Report – Costs in the USA and Elsewhere at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:25:10 +0000

[…] The damage to the USA economy due to inflated health care costs is huge. A significant portion of the excessive costs are due to policies the government enacts (which only make sense if you believe the cash given to politicians by those seeking to retain the excessive costs structure in the USA the last few decades buy the votes of the political parties and the individual politicians). […]

By: USA Fiscal Cliff – Better Than Past Behavior at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:24:34 +0000

[…] also have failed to reform the health care system for decades. The costs in the US are double that of other rich countries with no better results. This results […]

By: Health Care in the USA Cost 17.9% of GDP, $2.6 Trillion, $8,402 per person in 2010 at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:44:47 +0000

We not only need to slow down how fast we are getting worse (which we have done the last 2 years) but actually start making up for all the ground lost in the last few decades. We haven’t even started on that…

By: The USA Can’t Afford to Pay for the Current Health Care System at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:42:12 +0000

[…] very frustrating aspect of the broken health care system in the USA is that it has been an enormous problem for decades. It isn’t that we have just discovered we […]

By: USA Spends Record $2.5 Tillion, $8,086 per person 17.6% of GDP on Health Care in 2009 at Curious Cat Economics Blog

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:19:27 +0000

The broken USA health care system costs twice as much as other rich countries for worse results. And those are just the direct accounting costs…

By: 5 painful health-care lessons from Massachusetts at Curious Cat Economics Blog

5 painful health-care lessons from Massachusetts at Curious Cat Economics Blog — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:29:12 +0000

What would be nice is if we can learn from experiments and adjust. Those who profit enormously at the expense of society from the current system are going to provide critiques of any changes…

By: USA Spends Record $2.3 trillion ($7,681 Per Person) on Health Care in 2008 at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:07:59 +0000

[…] huge amount being spent continues to grow to an even larger percentage of GDP every year. The damage to the economy of the dysfunctional health care system in the USA is huge. For comparison the total GDP per person in China is $5,970 (the closest total country per capita […]