{"id":37820,"date":"2011-05-05T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=37820"},"modified":"2015-06-03T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:58:31","slug":"us-healthcare-vs-the-rest-of-the-world-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/us-healthcare-vs-the-rest-of-the-world-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US Healthcare vs. the Rest of the World: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 0pt 0pt; float: left;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The richest and most advanced country in the world, the United States, has fallen behind other nations in providing affordable health care to its citizens. Americans spend $477 billion a year MORE on health care than other advanced countries, which amounts to $1,645 per person every year. Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalbillingandcoding.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Billing and Coding<\/a> put together this graphic to show exactly why we pay so much for health care compared to other wealthy nations. Part 1 can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/us-healthcare-vs-the-rest-of-the-world\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Medical Costs in the US\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalbillingandcoding.org\/medicals-costs-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37821 lazyload\" title=\"US Medical Costs\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Medical-Costs-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"4063\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Medical-Costs-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Medical-Costs-2-151x1024.jpg 151w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/4063;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalbillingandcoding.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medicalbillingandcoding.org<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div>\n        <font style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;\">Embed this Image on Your Site:<br \/><\/font><br \/>\n        <textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"45\" onclick=\"this.select();\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalbillingandcoding.org\/medicals-costs-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/images.medicalbillingandcoding.org.s3.amazonaws.com\/Medical-Costs-2.jpg\" alt=\"Medical Costs Part 2 Infographic\" width=\"500\"  border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><br \/>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalbillingandcoding.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Billing and Coding<\/a><\/textarea>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The richest and most advanced country in the world, the United States, has fallen behind other nations in providing affordable health care to its citizens. Americans spend $477 billion a year MORE on health care than other advanced countries, which amounts to $1,645 per person every year. Our friends at Medical Billing and Coding put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":37821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[7067,7091,5305],"class_list":{"0":"post-37820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-healthcare","9":"tag-medical-costs","10":"tag-toparticles"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}