Question

PROBLEM: Health care spending in the U.S.A. is high (almost 18% of national income; approaching $11,000 per person) and is growing at an unsustainable rate. Simultaneously, our population's health indicators are worse than many wealthy nations that spend far less on health care than we do.

1. What are some possible causes of high health care spending?
2. Are any of those possible causes of high spending also possibly causing our poor health, and how?

Answer 1

1) Some possible causes for high healthcare spending are : Expensive Healthcare in US , Inequality in availing healthcare services , Providing assistance to the lower income class group , improve the healthcare sector via reforms and innovation , provide adorable healthcare services to all.

2) Some of the causes are : Most of the healthcare spending goes into the adminstrative costs and unnecessary tests which don't directly effect the healthcare , there is Inequality of innovation across the health sector , even after so much spending prices of healthcare remains high for a middle class person , high spending leads to Budget Deficit which inturn leads to inflation and causing high prices of healthcare , which ultimately leads to less people availing the services and having poor health