POL S 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Infant Mortality, Prescription Drug, American Exceptionalism
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If we continue on this path it will be taking 20 percent by 2020. Spending a lot more on health care than other countries: higher overall per capita costs than in other industrialized countries and higher transaction costs o. Provides fewer services at higher cost: having a huge increases in 2013- Before affordable care people weren"t using their health care as much. There is an increase on using health care when the affordable health care was passed. The us system is a mixed public-private on with a variety of deliver systems ( ffs, hmos, ppos ) o. Both the private and public systems have more bureaucratized and regimented in an effort to control costs. There is significant variation in access to and quality of care: depends on whether someone has insurance or not, also variation by urbanity, region and ethnic groups.
