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Health Affairs, Vol 13, Issue 4, 100-112
Copyright © 1994 by Project HOPE

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Health system performance in OECD countries, 1980-1992. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

U.S. health expenditure levels and rates of increase continue to exceed those of other Western industrialized nations. The pluralistic U.S. health care system has the highest excess health care inflation and opportunity costs of forgone nonhealth consumption and investment when compared with other major industrialized countries. While poor U.S. performance in terms of life expectancy at birth and infant mortality may partially result from social problems, there is little quantifiable evidence of value for money or equity in terms of health system performance.

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