Huge cost of US healthcare driven by drug prices and salaries

America spends twice as much on healthcare as 10 other countries, due to the high price of everything from prescriptions to doctors

The United States spends twice as much on healthcare as 10 other high-income nations, driven by the high price of everything from prescription drugs to doctors’ salaries, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds.

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