For the 10 countries with complete data for this model, the authors found evidence of much more widespread and rapid productivity growth: Denmark's cumulated growth was close to 33%, with the United States close behind. In both these countries, this growth was due solely to technical change over this period.
U.S. health expenditure levels and rates of increase continue to exceed those of other Western industrialized nations. The pluralistic U.S. health care system has the highest excess health care inflation and opportunity costs of forgone nonhealth consumption and investment when compared with other major industrialized countries. While poor U.S. performance in terms of life expectancy at birth and infant mortality may partially result from social problems, there is little quantifiable evidence of value for money or equity in terms of health system performance.
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