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by arppacket 1981 days ago
The "administrative costs" in that analysis are misleading. "Administrative costs include spending on running governmental health programs and overhead from insurers but exclude administrative expenditures from healthcare providers." I don't think the blue bar is representative of the "raw cost" of care.

This study says over one-third of all US healthcare costs are administrative.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costs-administrati...