Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Health Care Spending and average Outcome by Country

I suppose that it would be one thing to spend the most per person here in the US if we got the overall best outcomes. Unfortunately, numerous factors contribute to this not being the case in the US as compared to virtually all other countries in the developed and many in the emerging world.

As we look to help clients finance health care costs we are ever aware of both the costs (estimated) and the fear factor of costs. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has extensive Global health care and cost data (from which the below NGM chart was constructed) in their OECD Health Data 2011 study

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