United States Continues to Have Highest Level of Health Spending

The United States continues to spend the most on health care when compared to other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Health care prices and higher per capita incomes are major factors for higher U.S. spending, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Princeton University.
U.S. health care spending per capita was 2.5 times greater than the median OECD country.
The United States spent 15.3% of our gross domestic product on health care, which is substantially higher than any other OECD country.
Despite the fact that:
The United States had fewer physicians, nurses and hospital beds per capita than the OECD median.
The United States also had lower utilization rates than the OECD median for physician visits per capita, acute care bed days and average length of inpatient stay.