Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Total Health Expenditures per Capita, 1960-2002

Line graph showing that U.S. spending has increased at a rate greater than Switzerland, Japan, Norway, Finland, and Sweden.

Notes:

Coming back to the lower 48. America spends twice as much as any country in the developed world yet ranks at the very bottom of the developed world for the key indicator of health infant mortality.