Health Affairs, 23, no. 3 (2004): 9 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.23.3.9 © 2004 by Project HOPE	New Online   Senate Health Reform Bill   Rewarding Providers   Public Option Policy Brief   Health Reform & Abortion   Delivery System Reform

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Costs & Competition

PROLOGUE

Costs And Competition Around The World

PROLOGUE: The norm in international health system comparisons is to recognize the achievements of technology in the United States but to focus on the unflattering gap between the extravagance of the U.S. system and its relatively weak showing on many measures of performance. Critics who advocate a stronger role for the public sector have feasted on these comparisons. But the following reports from a sampling of industrialized countries with much lower per capita health care costs than in the United States reveal discontent on all sides, and extensive experimentation with market-oriented approaches to improving performance in other systems. At the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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