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U.S. Health Spending Habits Grab International Attention

The exceptionalism of the United States never ceases to amaze citizens of other countries. Every year Health Affairs publishes the highlights of spending trends among the thirty industrialized nations that constitute the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). And every year this paper attracts a large and growing international audience. Ready evidence of this trend can be found on the online list of the fifty most-read papers, which is updated each month (www.healthaffairs.org/Most_Read.php). Almost a year after we published the annual OECD paper analyzing the latest (2003) data on health care spending ("U.S. Health Spending in an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart, Founding Editor

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