United States Health Expenditure (thumbnail)
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The total United States health expenditure as percent of gross domestic product has grown from approximately 5% in 1960 to over 16% by 2010. When national health-care spending was half of current rates, many called its growth “unsustainable”. As of 2008, the Organization for Economic Cooperation reported U. S. expenditure on health as percent of gross domestic product was approximately 16%. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare. Source: WHO and OECD.)
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United States Health Expenditure (thumbnail)
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The total United States health expenditure as percent of gross domestic product has grown from approximately 5% in 1960 to over 16% by 2010.
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When national health-care spending was half of current rates, many called its growth “unsustainable”. As of 2008, the Organization for Economic Cooperation reported U. S. expenditure on health as percent of gross domestic product was approximately 16%. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare. Source: WHO and OECD.)
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