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It’s The Prices, Stupid: Why The United States Is So Different From Other Countries

Overview of attention for article published in Health Affairs, May 2003
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#9 of 6,444)
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170 news outlets
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34 blogs
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9 policy sources
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287 X users
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11 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

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488 Mendeley
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5 CiteULike
Title
It’s The Prices, Stupid: Why The United States Is So Different From Other Countries
Published in
Health Affairs, May 2003
DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.22.3.89
Pubmed ID
Authors

Gerard F. Anderson, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Peter S. Hussey, Varduhi Petrosyan

Abstract

This paper uses the latest data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to compare the health systems of the thirty member countries in 2000. Total health spending--the distribution of public and private health spending in the OECD countries--is presented and discussed. U.S. public spending as a percentage of GDP (5.8 percent) is virtually identical to public spending in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Japan (5.9 percent each) and not much smaller than in Canada (6.5 percent). The paper also compares pharmaceutical spending, health system capacity, and use of medical services. The data show that the United States spends more on health care than any other country. However, on most measures of health services use, the United States is below the OECD median. These facts suggest that the difference in spending is caused mostly by higher prices for health care goods and services in the United States.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 13 3%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 470 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 85 17%
Researcher 62 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 56 11%
Student > Bachelor 41 8%
Other 35 7%
Other 115 24%
Unknown 94 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 104 21%
Social Sciences 83 17%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 52 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 38 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 5%
Other 67 14%
Unknown 121 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1811. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 November 2023.
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#5,317
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#9
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Outputs of similar age from Health Affairs
#2
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