{"id":705,"date":"2012-03-07T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=705"},"modified":"2012-03-07T16:10:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:10:51","slug":"shockingly-the-us-spends-more-on-healthcare-because-it-costs-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/07\/shockingly-the-us-spends-more-on-healthcare-because-it-costs-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Shockingly, the US spends more on healthcare because it costs more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/why-an-mri-costs-1080-in-america-and-280-in-france\/2011\/08\/25\/gIQAVHztoR_blog.html\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/why-an-mri-costs-1080-in-america-and-280-in-france\/2011\/08\/25\/gIQAVHztoR_blog.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to see that health insurance companies made so little profit, but I am a bit suspect on how the numbers were calculated because the author also reported that the pharmaceuticals and medical device industry had 20% profits which doesn&#8217;t jive with my analysis (which puts the margins well over 50%).  The overall conclusion, though, is that the US pays the most for medicine and has the least to show for it, which is pretty much what all analysis I have seen in the last decade or so have shown.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/why-an-mri-costs-1080-in-america-and-280-in-france\/2011\/08\/25\/gIQAVHztoR_blog.html I was surprised to see that health insurance companies made so little profit, but I am a bit suspect on how the numbers were calculated because the author also reported that the pharmaceuticals and medical device industry had 20% profits which doesn&#8217;t jive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/07\/shockingly-the-us-spends-more-on-healthcare-because-it-costs-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shockingly, the US spends more on healthcare because it costs more!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}