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What Country Spends The Most (And Least) On Health Care Per Person?

A new report looks at data from 184 countries. And raises the question: Does more spending lead to better health outcomes?
Source: Alyson Hurt

The United States spends the most on health care per person — $9,237 – according to two new papers published in the journal The Lancet.

Somalia spends the least – just $33 per person.

The data covering 184 countries was collected and analyzed by the Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network, a network of investigators from around the world with expertise in various aspects of health care. In between those two extremes,, assistant professor at the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation at the University of Washington. He authored the two papers, one looking at , and the other .

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