High pharmaceutical spending is due to both the prices of drugs and utilization. United States healthcare spending increased by 7.5% in 2023* to $4.9 trillion, which is 17.6% of the gross domestic ...

Healthcare rankings shift every year, but the gap between the systems at the top and the ones struggling at the bottom rarely closes. Some nations manage to deliver excellent care while spending a ...

The US health-care system is reaching its breaking point. Individuals, families, employees, employers, and public and private health insurance funders are all spending more for health care every year, ...

The U.S. health care reimbursement system was built for a different era — one that prioritized high-stakes “cure” interventions over the nuanced “care” interventions better suited to the ongoing needs ...

The New York Police Department is trying to piece together clues that may lead to the identity of the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was fatally shot in Manhattan on ...

There are 3 ways to make the US health care system more efficient and sustainable: address its burdensome complexity, emphasize primary care reimbursement, and regulate drug pricing. Moving to a ...

The UnitedHealth Group’s CEO addressed boiling frustrations, threats and vitriol aimed at health care insurers, conceding, “We know the health system does not work as well as it should.” But he said ...

Here, we describe the challenges inherent in health care markets, how our approach to addressing those challenges contributes to high administrative costs, and how modest policy-based guardrails can ...

Concessions to the private sector are one reason why health care is so costly. FS Productions/Tetra images via Getty Images A few years ago, a student in my history of public health course asked why ...