Health Outcomes Lag, Costs Rise by Joyce Frieden. Medpage Today. November 12, 2013.
(1) Compared with other countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, people in the U.S. are sicker with conditions such as ______________________________________
accounting for 75% of the deviation.
(2) U.S. 2011 health expenditures stood at ______% of GDP, ______% more than the average for other members of the OECD.
(3) What evidence indicates that rising healthcare costs are not the result in increasing demand and an aging population.
(4) There has been an ______% drop in personal spending for physician services with the slack being taken up by _____________________.
(5) Chronic illness costs for those under 65 account for _______% for healthcare spending showing the need for _____________________.
(6) What has been the impact on physicians of insurance and hospital consolidations?
(7) What are some of the possible reasons for poorer outcomes in the U.S.?
No comments:
Post a Comment