Why does U.S. health care cost so much? The hidden-in-plain-sight answer
Posted on AllSides October 26th, 2016
From The Left
OPINION
We in PNHP often give the impression that the principal problem with America’s health care system is the extraordinary waste associated with its multi-payer private insurance system. We cite the 15 percent administrative waste that we calculate is due to that insurance system, including not only the marketing and utilization-control costs and the profits reaped by the insu