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A colleague wrote to ask "What about high hospital prices."

My colleague is right - US hospital price are dramatically higher than those in other developed countries. I think the Commonwealth Fund researchers put some of this into provider administrative activities and higher income for doctors and hospitals - but much of it might be in the 40% that they did not categorize.

I will append data from the International Federation of Health Plans published by the Health Care Cost Institute: https://healthcostinstitute.org/images/pdfs/international_health_cost_comparison_report_2022.pdf

(looks like I can't add images to comments).

Thanks!

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