Pay for What Works

摘要

The nation's 47 million uninsured are not the only reason that health care has become a big issue in the presidential campaigns. Besides leaving many uncovered, the U.S. also has trouble controlling the spending habits of a health care colossus that is on track to consume 20 cents of every dollar by 2015, a tripling from 1970 levels. Even back in 2005, the health expenditures for each U.S. citizen exceeded the entire per capita incomes of Chile or Venezuela.