Burdensome health care spending in the United States is a wide-reaching issue that requires multiple solutions, according to an expert.
Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues recently published the results of a cohort study evaluating burdensome health care spending over time among individuals in the U.S.
The study, which included 12,645 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys respondents, revealed that the health care system “imposes cost burdens on a larger share of the population than suggested by cross-sectional analyses,” and that