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Disparities & Policy

PROLOGUE

Disparities And Policy

PROLOGUE: The World Health Organization has consistently found that the United States spends a higher proportion of its gross domestic product on health than any other country. New data indicate that this distinction remains relatively free from challenge. Katharine Levit and colleagues recently reported in Health Affairs (Jan/Feb 02) that U.S. health spending, in the midst of a multiyear run of "accelerated growth," topped $1.3 trillion in 2000. Yet for such massive capital investment, the U.S. health care system has persistently failed to earn better than mere middling marks when U.S. health indicators are evaluated on a global scale.

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