"We’re spending 18 percent of our GDP on healthcare while the average among industrialized countries is closer to 8 percent."
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U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Republican, represents the Green Bay area in Wisconsin. He was elected in 2016. (Photo from Green Bay Press Gazette)
Mike Gallagher on target with claim on health care costs in U.S. vs. other industrialized nations
Our Sources
WISN 12 News YouTube, Video from Mike Gallagher’s UPFRONT interview, July 8, 2017.
Email statement from Madison Wiberg, communications director for Congressman Mike Gallagher, July 11, 2017.
Health Affairs, "National Health Spending: Faster Growth in 2015 as Coverage Expands and Utilization Increases," January 2017.
The Commonwealth Fund, "2015 International Profiles of Healthcare Systems," January 2016.
Phone conversation with Joe Dieleman, PhD., economist and assistant professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, July 21, 2017.
Phone conversation with Steven Woolf, M.D., professor and director of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, July 26, 2017.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, "National Health Expenditures 2015 Highlights," 2016.
The Commonwealth Fund, "U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective," October 8, 2015.
The Kaiser Family Foundation, "Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker," May 22, 2017.
PBS Newshour, "Health Costs: How the U.S. Compares With Other Countries," October 22, 2012.
The Lancet, "Evolution and patterns of global health financing 1995–2014: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries," April 19, 2017.
The Lancet, "Future and potential spending on health 2015–40: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries," April 19, 2017.
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Health Statistics, 2017.
Mike Gallagher on target with claim on health care costs in U.S. vs. other industrialized nations
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