Where do our health care dollars go?
By Sarah Kliff
Mostly to hospitals and doctors with smaller chunks spent on nursing homes, rehabilitative care and prescription drugs.
Hospitals and doctors, perhaps unsurprisingly, are the biggest recipients of health care spending. The United States spent $882 billion on hospitals and $752 billion on doctors in 2012. Taken together, that accounts for 60 percent of all health-care spending.
It’s worth noting that there are other, smaller pieces of health spending not represented in personal health care services. The United States, for example, invested $48 billion in health-care research in 2012 and spent $33.6 billion on administrative overhead for public health-care programs, like Medicare and Medicaid.
(From VOX)
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