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

  1. Thomas Bodenheimer, MD
  1. From the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
    1. Figure 1. Adapted with permission from Levit et al. . Copyright 2004, Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
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        Figure 1. Adapted with permission from Levit et al. . Copyright 2004, Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. Where the health care dollar comes from, 2002.(2)
      • Figure 2. Adapted with permission from Levit et al. . Copyright 2004, Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
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          Figure 2. Adapted with permission from Levit et al. . Copyright 2004, Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. Where the health care dollar goes, 2002.(2)
        • Figure 3. Values are U.S. dollars (purchasing power parity international dollars). Data obtained from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development .
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            Figure 3. Values are U.S. dollars (purchasing power parity international dollars). Data obtained from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development . Health expenditures and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, 1998.(1)

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