Achieving a High-Performance Health Care System with Universal Access: What the United States Can Learn from Other Countries

Figure 4.
Figure 4. Percentage of health care costs paid out of pocket, 2004.

Data are from a previous year for 2 countries: For the Slovak Republic, data are from 2003; for Japan, data are from 2002. Recent data are available only for 26 of the 30 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Source: Congressional Research Service based on OECD Health Data 2006 (October 2006).

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