COST OF LIVING • HEALTHCARE
Forty percent. That’s the share of all U.S. healthcare cost growth in the past year that came from one place — hospitals. They’re 31% of the system. They’re eating 40% of every new dollar. Same procedure, different building, different price. Medicare pays a hospital three times what it pays a doctor’s office for the same test. Your bill knows. Tuesday the American Hospital Association released a 60-page report titled “Making Health Care More Affordable.” They have a reason to be nervous.
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The hospital is the most expensive room in American healthcare — and most patients never knew they had a choice.
