claim: "hospitals, doctors, mris, surgeries and so forth are more extensively used and far more expensive in this country than they are in many other countries.''
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: jan 18, 2014 ... doctors' charges — and the incentives they reflect — are a major factor in the nation's $2.7 trillion medical bill. payments to doctors in the united states, who make far more than their counterparts in other developed countries, account for 20 percent of american health care expenses, second only to hospital ...
evidence_2: administrative costs are at 31% of u.s. health spending, far higher than in other countries' systems. these inflated costs are due to our failure to have a publicly financed, universal health care system. we spend about twice as much per person as canada or most european nations, and still deny health care to many in need ...
evidence_3: aug 9, 2013 ... the united states spends far more on health care than any other country. ... yet the history of price controls is extensive, consistent, and uninspiring. ... prices fixed by fiat reduce incentives for providers to cut costs and encourage them to seek profits by playing politics rather than by serving their customers.
evidence_4: reports on more than 1,200 health system measures across 34 industrialized countries. ... pital and physician visits than in most other countries. .... short in the u.s., hospital spending per discharge far exceeded all other countries at $16,708—nearly triple the oecd median of $5,949. the country with the second-highest ...
evidence_5: in 2001, children's hospital boston was the first pediatric hospital to acquire a surgical robot. today, surgeons use the technology for many procedures and perform more pediatric robotic operations than any other hospital in the world. children's hospital physicians have developed a number of new applications to expand ...