Variation in Health Care Spending: Target Decision Making, Not Geography

by Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care

Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. Increasing costs strain budgets at all levels of government and threaten the solvency of Medicare, the nation's largest health insurer. At the same time, despite advances in biomedical science, medicine, and public health, health care quality remains inconsistent. In fact, underuse,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030928869X
• ISBN13: 9780309288699
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"