High and Rising Health Care Costs. Part 1: Seeking an Explanation

View larger version (39K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Where the health care dollar comes from, 2002. Adapted with permission from Levit et al. (2). Copyright 2004, Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

View larger version (48K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Where the health care dollar goes, 2002. Adapted with permission from Levit et al. (2). Copyright 2004, Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

View larger version (12K): [in a new window]   Figure 3. Health expenditures and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, 1998. Values are U.S. dollars (purchasing power parity international dollars). Data obtained from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1).