HLST 4110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Medicare Advantage, Prescription Drug, Co-Insurance
24 Apr 2021
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Us country profile - organization of economic cooperation and development - 2017 (oecd) How does the us compare? (1: health status: life expectancy at birth was 78. 8 years in 2015. Despite an increase in coverage from 85. 6% in 2013, it is still not universal with only 91% of the population covered by insurance (the second lowest coverage rate after greece). Conversely, the number of doctors per person are relatively low (2. 6 per 1 000 people compared to an oecd average of 3. 4), as are numbers of hospital beds (2. 8 versus 4. 7 beds per 1 000). Compared with the other g7 countries, the united states spends almost 80% more than germany and more than twice as much on health care per person as canada, france and japan. Health spending amounted to 17. 2% of gdp, more than eight percentage points above the oecd average. Furthermore, health spending grew by 4. 1% in real terms in 2015, the fastest rate in ten years.
