The Market Ticker - Oh Look, More Excuses

This is the sort of article that leads one to wish for the authors and editor to go swimming in the ocean – and get eaten by a shark.

The U.S. spends about twice what other high-income nations do on health care but has the lowest life expectancy and the highest infant mortality rates, a new study suggests.

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“There’s no doubt that administrative complexity and higher drug prices both matter – as do higher prices for pretty much everything in U.S. healthcare,” said lead study author Irene Papanicolas of the London School of Economics and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

“These inefficiencies are likely the product of a number of factors including a reliance on fee-for-service reimbursement, the administrative…….

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