Why Americans pay more for health care
Apparently, ok..accordng to a survey by McKinsey Quartely; the largest and fastest growing spending by Americans is on Outpatient care which means “same-day hospital care and visits to physicians’ offices”
Outpatient care
The high and fast-growing cost of outpatient care reflects a structural shift in the United States away from inpatient settings, such as overnight hospital stays. Today, the US system delivers 65 percent of all care in outpatient contexts, up from 43 percent in 1980, and well above the OECD average of 52 percent. In theory, this shift should help to save money, since fixed costs in outpatient settings tend to be lower than the cost of overnight hospital stays. In reality, however, the shift to outpatient care has added to—not taken away from—total system costs because of the higher utilization of outpatient care in the United States
