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by cadlin 2695 days ago
U.S. Healthcare is more expensive because every single step along the way costs more.

This blog series[1] by healthcare professionals goes through it all. The primary culprits are: more expensive inpatient care, more expensive outpatient care, more expensive drugs, higher administrative costs, higher insurance costs, higher health investment costs, higher disease prevalence costs, and higher defensive medicine costs.

https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/what-makes-the-...