Where health care dollars go

Deloitte has published an analysis titled The Hidden Costs of U.S. Health Care for Consumers. I thought some of the figures were interesting, providing a visual exploration of where health care dollars go, stratified in various ways. Three are below (click to enlarge). Note: the dark blue bar for “Private insurance” in the first graph below ($268) seems to be mis-colored. I think it should be magenta, representing hospital care.

UPDATE: Noted the mis-colored bar in the first chart.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @afrakt. His day job is Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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