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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: BEST OF: Marcia Weaver Explains Two Decades of Health Care Spending Effectiveness
Description: This episode was originally published on July 19, 2022.It's well known that the United States spends much more than other high-income countries on health care, the most recent estimates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published in Health Affairs show that nearly a fifth of US GDP is spent on health care services.It's perhaps somewhat less well known that health outcomes lag those of many other countries. Life expectancy and infant mortality rates rank well below not just other high-income countries, but many middle-income countries as well.<...