Abstract:

Healthcare spending in the US is characterized as being the most costly per person while health system is not delivering superior results on health outcomes. There have been many explanations that the US having the highest healthcare spending, such as prices, high prevalence of new-technology, chronic diseases and administrative cost. This study focuses on the structure of the US healthcare system and discusses the results for replacing the present public-private system with a single payer public system to restrain or reduce healthcare spending. In this context, the paper analyzes the US and France healthcare systems and then compares both systems in terms of costs. Finally the paper concludes the US payer system has not been exercising the same monopsony power that has enabled the French healthcare system keeping costs considerably lower, while proving equal, if not better care

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